On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:39:48PM -0000, Colin King wrote: > From my understanding of the patches, they are to do with grub-update > identifying the disk by examining /dev/disk/by-uuid. This is different > to my set of patches which do UUID identification at boot time inside > the boot loader (my code uses raw BIOS reads of the underlying > filesystem and some uuid magic via the uuid library borrowed from udev).
> From what I can understand from the message in http://www.nabble.com > /UUID-support-in-GRUB-td17586784.html the boot from uuid part is not yet > implemented in grub-0.9x. It appears there is some experimental UUID > support in grub2 that would needs to be back ported to 0.9x -- which > could be as unpleasant as writing it from scratch. Ok, you appear to be correct. I've reviewed Robert Millan's mail to debian-boot, and I see that he says: I'm in the process of enabling UUID support in GRUB. This basically means two different things: 1- GRUB should use UUIDs internally to identify the devices it needs to access (for example, which device contains your /boot), regardless of how BIOS assigns numbers. 2- update-grub should automatically detect the UUID of your root filesystem and tell Linux about it via "root=UUID=xxx" parameter. Latest grub2 in unstable (1.96+20080601-1) is already doing #1 (to some extent) and #2 (although #2 can be disabled). #1 I don't expect to see in grub legacy; but #2 is trivial to implement. My plan is to use grub2 as a testbed for this feature, and if no problem arises add it to grub legacy as well. So indeed, he doesn't have any intention of implementing UUID support directly in GRUB1. Thanks, I'll poke at your patches later today. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Grub: Add detection of bootable disk partitions by UUID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
