08.11.2015 01:58, Arbiel (gmx) пишет:
undocumented command parameter : --hint (command search), and some other
--hint.something which I haven't been able to localise just now.
Which command?
search.
And I just read in a grub.cfg file, not one of mine the line
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt6
--hint-efi=hd0,gpt6 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt6
427b86fb-cc66-46be-ad68-ade86794af55
which shows some "--hint" parameters. What do they all mean ?
They are intended to optimize search at boot time. They contain guessed
firmware device names. If this name was guessed correctly, it avoids
searching across all devices at boot time.
In practice for Linux on i386-pc it does not really work because to
reliably guess BIOS HDD number you need EDD and with 32 bit Linux boot
protocol EDD information must be provided by bootloader.
This is again something that users should not be normally concerned with
- these hints are added automatically by probing code. We could add "see
development manual for additional options" if we had development manual
... but yes, description of grub-mkconfig framework and which high-level
functions are provided is missing.
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