At Mon, 15 May 2006 19:35:11 -0400, John Lumby wrote: > > Not a bug, not even a problem - just curious. > > I understand what the device.map is and how to specify it, but I have yet > to come across something that uses it; by which I mean, something such as > a subcommand whose syntax includes a reference to a device in unix /dev/xxx > form and then reverse-looks up that unix device name in device.map to get > the BIOS name; or a subcommand which accepts the BIOS form and then needs > for some reason (what?) to find the unix name. > > I guess maybe it's used when running the unix command grub? Since then the > unix devices do exist. But I also guess it's never used when grub runs > stand-alone from initial boot?
It's always used by GRUB when you install GRUB. It's the only way GRUB knows how to map unix device names to BIOS drives. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
