Re: Re: search and boot using GPT GUID values

2010-04-21 Thread gburanov
Great that somebody agrees with me on the GUIDs =) In you have problems with compile/testing, feel free to reply here (or to my mail directly). I ahave made some fixes to it. Again, I am talking about integration it to the GRUB. This is MUST HAVE feature, at least for UEFI support -- This mess

Re: search and boot using GPT GUID values

2010-04-10 Thread Simon Kitching
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 13:58 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 04/06/10 04:22, Simon Kitching wrote: > > So what do you think about > >(a) adding root=GUID as a kernel option > > That's something you need to ask Linux folks, not GRUB folks. For > non-initrd usage, it sounds plausible to me that

Re: search and boot using GPT GUID values

2010-04-06 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 04/06/10 04:22, Simon Kitching wrote: So what do you think about (a) adding root=GUID as a kernel option That's something you need to ask Linux folks, not GRUB folks. For non-initrd usage, it sounds plausible to me that you'd have a chance of achieving some linux-kernel-change (as long

search and boot using GPT GUID values

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi All, I've been experimenting with booting linux from a GPT-formatted drive on a BIOS-based x86 pc. === (1) Is there a grub "search" command variant to find the (hdx,y) value for a GPT partition GUID? (I can't see one). If not, do you think this would be a useful thing? I might be interested i