On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:52:15 -0400 Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:32 +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > If a boot drive is the same as a root drive, you are right. > > Otherwise we need to do so. > > > > I think we have seen tons of examples with GRUB Legacy which may > > not be solved automatically in all cases. If one digs into the > > archive of bug-grub, I guess several cases would be found easily. > > With GRUB 2, we can avoid embedding BIOS drive numbers in many > > cases, using UUIDs or labels or files. But this does not always > > work, so I am afraid that we need to support device.map, even if it > > is an evil necessity. > > That's a very advanced setup. I actually cannot imagine why anyone > would use different boot and root drives. Well, maybe the boot drive > has no partitions that GRUB or the host OS can access? I have used machines that have multiple Linux versions spread across two drives, but one common /boot partition so they can all be booted from GRUB. This doesn't seem unusual to me. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
