On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 02:25:51PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > No, I don't think we will. grub-probe is perfectly capable of mapping > > > /dev/sda1 to (hd0,1) even without device.map; > > > > I wasn't very fond of this because it's BIOS-specific. But I guess we can > > live with it. > > On second thought, I'm really not convinced we need this kind of logic. It > seems a lot like a workaround. > > Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/ names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating system. > If you remove device.map generation from grub-install, you can remove > the backward compatibility hack while at it. Which backward compatibility hack? > In the future, we can rely on the initial value of $root as well, but this > would require some rework (disk / partition split). Would you mind elaborating on this? I would like to get this sorted out and am willing to work on it. Sorry to be stupid, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
