On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:19:27AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 11:53 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > Some of our commands use --no-floppy. Also supported in GRUB Legacy (by > > 'find' > > or so, can't remember). Perhaps it's better to use that for consistency? > > It > > is the floppy scan which everyone hates; for other devices I don't think > > people will mind if GRUB spends a few ms on them. > > Sure, --no-floppy would be consistent with the installers, but it will > take some effort to get right. Let's not forget CD floppy emulation, by > the way. You wrote that sometimes a hard drive can be reported as a > floppy. Perhaps we still want to search floppies as the last resort. > > Besides, I'd prefer to avoid floppy search is all "search" commands. I > have a custom rule to boot another distro, and it uses "search" by > label. I don't want to add --no-floppy to that command because it's an > extra effort. It's not hard for GRUB to do things nicely without having > users edit their custom rules. > > That's why I would prefer optimized search order. But I'm not strongly > opposing --no-floppy as long as it's done right.
Search order has been optimized now (see the other sub-thread). But there's still room for improvement, of course.. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
