Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-06-01 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:19:27AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:53 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by > > 'find' > > or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? > > It

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:53 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by > 'find' > or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? It > is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think >

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 05:56:59PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > >>Robert Millan wrote: > >>>Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by > >>>'find' > >>>or so, can't remember). Per

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Isaac Dupree
Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: Robert Millan wrote: Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by 'find' or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? It is the floppy scan which everyo

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Bean
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> >> BTW, if you merely need to change the scan order instead of disabling >> it, you can just change the order the device is reported in biosdisk. > > Sounds nice. I s

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:43:13PM +0800, Bean wrote: > > BTW, if you merely need to change the scan order instead of disabling > it, you can just change the order the device is reported in biosdisk. Sounds nice. I see you already included this change with your patch in the "findroot" thread. D

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:06:30PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by > >'find' > >or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? > >It > >is the floppy scan which everyone hates

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Isaac Dupree
Robert Millan wrote: Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by 'find' or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? It is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on t

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-31 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 01:38:07PM +0800, Bean wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > An old system with a floppy drive has a minor regression with the > > current GRUB. It makes some noises for a second or two when GRUB loads, > > appa

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-30 Thread Bean
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> An old system with a floppy drive has a minor regression with the >> current GRUB. It makes some noises for a second or two when GRUB loads, >

Re: Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-30 Thread Bean
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > An old system with a floppy drive has a minor regression with the > current GRUB. It makes some noises for a second or two when GRUB loads, > apparently trying to find a floppy disk in the drive. > > It's possibl

Searching UUID on floppies

2008-05-30 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! An old system with a floppy drive has a minor regression with the current GRUB. It makes some noises for a second or two when GRUB loads, apparently trying to find a floppy disk in the drive. It's possible that some misconfigured systems may even hang or wait for a long time if the floppy