Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2012-04-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Digging back the discussion. Jérémie Koenig, le Tue 13 Jul 2010 20:00:24 +0200, a écrit : > There are three approches for fixing this as far as I can see. > > The second one, which I favor and am working on so far, would be to > enumerate the _grub_ devices, and use get_storage_info() on them too

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-11 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 05:28:57PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:22:14PM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > GRUB effectively needs a three-way mapping between filesystems, device > > node names, and GRUB device names. The mapping between GRUB devices an

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:53:25PM +0200, Jeremie Koenig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:20:57AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > > > The second one, which I favor and am working on so far, would be > > > to enum

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 08:22:14PM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:51:07PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > > > > The first one would be to make part.c embed extra information in its > >

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-28 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 01:20:57AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > [...] > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > > The second one, which I favor and am working on so far, would be to > > enumerate the _grub_ devices, and use get_storage_info() on them too. > > N

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:51:07PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > > The first one would be to make part.c embed extra information in its > > stores and their encoded form (possibly in the "misc" fiels of a > > remap store)

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-28 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:19 PM, wrote: > Summary: grub-probe, used by grub-install, needs to deteremine which > device node a given file (say, /boot/grub) is stored on. [...] > There are three > approches for fixing this as

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-17 Thread Jérémie Koenig
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: >> The second one, which I favor and am working on so far, would be to >> enumerate the _grub_ devices, and use get_storage_info() on them too. > (...) > > This is a bit ha

Re: Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-14 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:00:24PM +0200, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > The first one would be to make part.c embed extra information in its > stores and their encoded form (possibly in the "misc" fiels of a remap > store). This would force it to create a new layer instead of reusing > the underlyin

Fixing grub-probe to work with user-space part stores

2010-07-13 Thread Jérémie Koenig
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:19 PM, wrote: > I already talked to Jeremie > about handling of partitions in grub-probe. As this is a rather > fundamental issue, I hope he will start an extra thread on this. Summary: grub-probe, used by grub-install, needs to deteremine which device node a given fil