Hi Andrei, The "map()" and "liveswap" commands were working in the legacy GRUB (version 0.97 I think). They somehow make it possible to work around BIOS limitations in older systems that prevent the GRUB Bootloader from vectoring off to another hard disk to boot.
For EXAMPLE: /dev/sda1 /boot GRUB /dev/sda2 / LINUX boots OK /dev/sdb1 Windows no boot! Grub entries using "map()" and "liveswap": map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) liveswap Somehow fools the BIOS into believing /dev/sdb1 is actually /dev/sda1. I don't know how it does that because I never fetched the legacy GRUB source code. > On Dec 9, 2014, at 13:23, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote: > > В Tue, 9 Dec 2014 05:51:22 -0500 > Mellissa Dalby <[email protected]> пишет: > >> Hi GRUB community, >> GRUB has become my Bootloader of choice. >> I do like the development progression of GRUB2 but I STILL NEED "map()" and >> "liveswap" > > Could you explain what they do? Any links to description or > implementation? > >> to support existing hardware. >> >> PLEASE consider adding it to GRUB2. > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
