Felix Zielcke wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 23:27 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs:
OK, I didn't realize set root was capable of using UUIDs. I did know
that the two root entries were different. I got that mixed up with
the
search command combined with the root=UUID=... which I think needs
Am Donnerstag, den 07.01.2010, 23:27 -0600 schrieb Bruce Dubbs:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> Robert Millan wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
> You mean
Colin Watson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
names will be unintelligi
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:18:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
>>> You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
>>> names will be unintelligible to G
Robert Millan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating
system.
Yes. This just means we'd
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
>
> You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
> names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating
> system.
Yes. This just means we'd have "set roo
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:25:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > > No, I don't think we will. grub-probe is perfectly capable of mapping
> > > /dev/sda1 to (hd0,1) even without device.map;
> >
> > I wasn't v
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:37:14PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Millan
> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:25:51 +0100
>
> > Then we rely only on UUIDs.
>
> This is exactly what I suggested we should avoid.
>
> On OpenFirmware we scan every device alias, %80 of them point to
> non-existing
From: Robert Millan
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:25:51 +0100
> Then we rely only on UUIDs.
This is exactly what I suggested we should avoid.
On OpenFirmware we scan every device alias, %80 of them point to
non-existing devices. The aliases are just an enumeration of
the set of devices that could
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > No, I don't think we will. grub-probe is perfectly capable of mapping
> > /dev/sda1 to (hd0,1) even without device.map;
>
> I wasn't very fond of this because it's BIOS-specific. But I guess we can
> live with it.
On second thoug
Am Donnerstag, den 24.12.2009, 22:17 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:12:58AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 01:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > > But first we'd need to figure out what we do with the "set
> root=xxx"
> > > backward compat
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:12:52AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:55:27AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:04:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to make Debian's grub-installer operate
> > > without a device.map; it
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:12:58AM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 01:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> > But first we'd need to figure out what we do with the "set root=xxx"
> > backward compatibility hack. Has it been a while long enough that
> > we can remove suppor
Am Donnerstag, den 10.12.2009, 01:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Millan:
> But first we'd need to figure out what we do with the "set root=xxx"
> backward compatibility hack. Has it been a while long enough that
> we can remove support for GRUB installs that didn't come with UUID
> support?
Well we sti
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:55:27AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:04:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to make Debian's grub-installer operate
> > without a device.map; it has various legacy bits and pieces that need
> > conversion, and I'm w
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:04:43PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to make Debian's grub-installer operate
> without a device.map; it has various legacy bits and pieces that need
> conversion, and I'm working on these.
>
> Along the way, though, I noticed that grub-ins
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:25:22PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Ah, I hadn't noticed r1870, sorry. Am I right in believing that my patch
> > is obsolete, then?
>
> I'm not completely sure, but it seems so. Sorry about that :-(
Do
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:25:22PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:28:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > As Robert said recently, we're trying to get rid of our reliance on
> > device.map. Right now, it is still necessary to at least have entries in
> > device.map for any d
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:28:06PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> As Robert said recently, we're trying to get rid of our reliance on
> device.map. Right now, it is still necessary to at least have entries in
> device.map for any disks you wish to use with GRUB, although they don't
> have to be parti
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