Other idea : use of the (-1) index from the Python language.
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Felix Zielcke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 10:12 -0500 schrieb Harvey Chapman: >> > Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like >> > to boot the same menu.lst on different machines and I know that I >> > always want the last partition on the first disk. >> > >> > Is there a way to do this? >> >> No there isn't. >> > > Would it be possible to do it in code kind of like how the "find" command > works? That is, use the drive specified and keep calling next_partition() > until the last partition is reached? I saw a comment in the code that > next_partition() may not be reliable. I'm perfectly willing to modify my > local copy of grub to do this, but I wanted to sound the idea off of the > existing developers to make sure it is possible. Perhaps I could add a > special partition number, '$' (to borrow from regular expression syntax), > which could mean last partition? > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
