Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-06-30 Thread splotz90
I think the search line makes sense ... I tried to explain it in my last comment (http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2698#comment:6): GRUB can boot if the device has changed (for example hd0,1 --> hd1,1) or if a new filesystem was created (--> the UUID has changed). My suggestion:

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-01 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 05:17, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > I'll ask the question again. How is search useful in an LFS > environment where we don't have initrd available? As I already said: The search command is only useful if we're using a seperate boot partition ... With help of the search line, GRUB can

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-01 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 08:24, schrieb splotz90: > Am 01.07.2010 05:17, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: >> I'll ask the question again. How is search useful in an LFS >> environment where we don't have initrd available? > As I already said: > > The search command is only use

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-01 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 09:27, schrieb Nathan Coulson: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:24 PM, splotz90 wrote: >> Am 01.07.2010 05:17, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: >>> I'll ask the question again. How is search useful in an LFS >>> environment where we don't have initrd avail

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-01 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 11:09, schrieb HouHongxun: > Even though /boot is a separate partition, we don't need to mount it. Ok, so we say "The search lines are only meaningful for LFS systems if a separate boot partition is used." ? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 22:29, schrieb Andrew Benton: > Which partition will grub choose? I think that I've found the answer ... Have a look at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/install.html I know that it is a GRUB Legacy documentation, but I think that GRUB 2 works in a similarly way

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 23:11, schrieb linux fan: > My understanding (from experimentation and documentation) is that the > UUID is specifically generated for a specific file system. You would > need to use dd or similar utility to move the filesystem to a > different partition if you wished to preserve th

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 02.07.2010 09:44, schrieb splotz90: >Am 01.07.2010 23:11, schrieb linux fan: >> My understanding (from experimentation and documentation) is that the >> UUID is specifically generated for a specific file system. You would >> need to use dd or similar utility to mov

Re: Explanation about grub's search command in chapter 8.4 of lfs book is wrong

2010-07-02 Thread splotz90
Am 01.07.2010 22:29, schrieb Andrew Benton: > Which partition will grub choose? I have found some additional information about that: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-does-grub2-find-the-grub-cfg-file-794560/ The "grub-setup" command seems to add an information where