On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 06:59 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: > As usb devices become more used this will be an important problem.
Are you sure that it will be seen as a separate device? > For example, I want to create a usb flash drive for use in an > installfest, for people with no CD or floppy. That would be great. > Partition 1 will have the kernel and initrd for the Fedora installation > process. > > Partition 2 will have the same for Opensuse. > > Partiton 3 the same for Mandriva. > > Partiton 4 ubuntu. > > How do I write a menu.lst to boot these different kernels with > different parameters, and partitions? I do not know which device the > usbstick will be at boot time, because the target systems have > different number of hard disks. Would not the boot device be hd0? > As matters now stand, there is no way to do it, and you seem to be > telling me the problem is not fixed with grub2! Even if I add boot_device now, there is an issue with the variable expansion, to that ($boot_device,3) would not expand to a valid device name. One possible approach would be to use LVM (Logical Volume Manager) - it's supported by grub2. You could install grub on a small boot partition and allocate the rest to as an LVM partition, that would be split into volumes. Then you could refer to the volumes by name. > It is easy to think of many analogous problems, in the comercial world. I agree. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
