On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the delay; it was quite a bit of work as I got hit by a number of > bugs here and there :-) > > Considering that the problem was quite similar to the "boot from LVM" issue > we already knew about, I thought it'd be a good idea to start with that. > > Although not directly related, the patch at in "boot from LVM / RAID" mail I > just sent would allow to easily boot via UUID as well. > > If we add a UUID-based disk driver (see "disk/fs_uuid.c" mail), then it's just > a matter of increasing the grub_prefix size so that an UUID can fit in it, and > adjusting the install scripts to do it. > > Here's a sample (untested) patch to illustrate it.
I take a quick look at your patch, the method should work, but i remember okuji oppose embedding device name in prefix, don't know how he look at it now. > > Then for the Vista use case, I suppose the remaining questions are if NTFS > supports UUIDs (or otherwise we have to ressort to labels?), and if we can > extract filesystem metadata from Windows (if possible without requiring that > a Cygwin installation is present). ntfs has a 64-bit serial number, it's not quite the same as uuid, but it can be used to identify the partition. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
