On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 06:22:25PM +0800, Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For normal boot, the root device is passed to core.img in preloader. >> However, if we load grub2 using linux header, there is no way to know >> the root device. This patch add a new module findroot that can be used >> to scan the root directory at startup. >> >> One important usage is to create a grub2 boot file for vista boot loader: >> >> mkimage -o g2ntfs.img pc ntfs biosdisk findroot >> cat lnxboot.img g2ntfs.img > g2ntfs.mbr >> >> The result g2ntfs.mbr is within 32K, which can be loaded by vista in >> one pass, no need to use the g2ldr.mbr anymore. The findroot modules >> ensure that prefix is set properly before switching to normal mode. >> >> If findroot is not used to create core.img, the original booting method >> remains. > > The module is called findroot, but it initialises $prefix rather than $root. > Shouldn't it be findprefix or so? >
In function grub_set_root_dev (main.c), it uses prefix to calculated root, so setting prefix is sufficient. About the name, well, findprefix works for me too. > Also, what this module is doing looks very similar to "search --set". Did > you check if search command can be used for what you want? (or otherwise > adapted) The findroot module is used to locate normal.mod. But search is a command, it can only be used after normal.mod has been loaded. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
