On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 08:34 -0600, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:11:18PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > > It is already there. GRUB 2 already supports setting a root based on a > > filesystem label or a path.
Indeed! That's much easier that LVM :-) > What is the syntax? How do I set it up? Are there example grub2 setups? grub> help search Usage: search [-f|-l|-s] NAME Search devices by a file or a filesystem label. If --set is specified, the first device found is set to a variable. If no variable name is specified, "root" is used. -f, --file search devices by a file (default) -l, --label search devices by a filesystem label -s, --set=VAR set a variable to the first device found -h, --help display this help and exit -u, --usage display the usage of this command and exit grub> That means, you can use unique labels like "usbstick-fedora8" and then use: search -f usbstick-fedora8 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-f8 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24-f8.img or something like that. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
