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I am looking at the impact in general with changing the grub-mkconfig scan not to pickup and update the grub.cfg with the UUID code but the PARTUUID code instead. At present the situation forces the user to enable a working initramfs to work around grub2. Why is this a problem? well because initramfs can be used to decorate ones boot display and many other things other than it's intended use. This means that UUID as a parameter in the grub.cfg wont work. I understand that Windows partitions use a shortened UUID only, so compatibility needs to be able to differentiate between the two types. UUID for windows partitions and PARTUUID for other GPT partitions. I cant understand why UUID's were used rather than PARTUUID's. If the code was modified to use PARTUUID's instead, what would be the impact on compatibility on a large scale. If people enable the option in Grub to use PARTUUID's then surely they would know to setup GPT disks. I feel it should be encouraged to remove the MBR tables as it is old and useless not to mention tied in to microsoft products. Now we have an Intel contribution "GPT" which works much better is it not right that we encourage the use of GPT over MBR? The point of this post is to raise alarm to the fact UUID's wont work without initramfs or initrd as so to read the UUID but the kernel can read PARTUUID without the use of initrd. Would that not be far better to not rely on init ram filesystem? A option/switch parameter when using mkconfig to output the cfg file maybe? Thanks f1r31c3r -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSaGuyAAoJEBzkvPKQNuh2JVcH+gOj1QwfH0jRXDcq1Usm3A0c EOktkEkz+5yMPbWIPOEQev9ZzIb18Ef6+eNVAEAmTuDVaF3i8stEv+wsnLixhj/R AR2qjHtTtGcJcq7O+6O6s+HziOEnbMVwdb0Yeg8m/qgr7Xx3MpNxjHQsyhdhMuxU xw6Mgy/A4TIp4qdyPFEpSYfRdu55LRkQATvP6+j5Vt7OcJn3Qkife+Vy4akdd07G WY1nq43aiYZP5DjOqeIlE8lq/e28RNJmtn6w8V1DlTC2oj4SM3Dpc96SGPSevNmw VLegioKa/vztyapJAZAVZ4tgtXnNpXeHxreo0G9HA8C3DkaMlY817Steko9C5cU= =ah6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
