On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:44 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: > > 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. > > > > This seems a long way to drag the cat around the barn. Or this > would be like kicking dead whales down the beach. One should > not have to invoke the complexity of LVN just so one can specify > partitions.
OK, let's fix GRUB. As for the expansion issue, I think I see how to fix it. grub_script_arg_add() should append expanded variables to the last argument, rather than allocate a new argument, unless the new argument is separated by spaces from the previous one. GRUB_SCRIPT_ARG_TYPE_STR and GRUB_SCRIPT_ARG_TYPE_VAR are "write only". I think we should discard grub_script_arg_type_t or use it to keep track of spaces in the input. As for the "boot_device", it could be set in the same place as "root", namely in grub_set_root_dev() in kern/main.c. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
