Re: retiring device.map

2008-05-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 01:39:47AM +0800, Bean wrote: > > Yes, UUID can be useful, it's better to add it to grub2. > > UUID itself is quite easy to get, but the question is how to integrate > it with the existing disk layer. I'm thinking of the following three > implementation: > > 1, Add a func

Re: retiring device.map

2008-05-08 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Thu, 8 May 2008 01:39:47 +0800 Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 a

Re: retiring device.map

2008-05-07 Thread Bean
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > > > I completely agree. Ho

Re: retiring device.map

2008-05-07 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:03 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > > I completely agree. How do we go about this? First of all we need > > > support > > > for labels, right?

Re: retiring device.map

2008-05-07 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:43:48AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > I completely agree. How do we go about this? First of all we need support > > for labels, right? > > We have it already in the "search" command. Of course, there is alw

Re: retiring device.map

2008-05-06 Thread Pavel Roskin
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:18 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I completely agree. How do we go about this? First of all we need support > for labels, right? We have it already in the "search" command. Of course, there is always room for improvement. GRUB doesn't recognize Linux swap labels. It c

retiring device.map

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Millan
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:31:06AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > I would explore the possibility of retiring device.map completely or > limiting its use to some rare cases. > > In the vast majority of cases, the installer should not rely on knowing > the BIOS numbers of the d