Cool! I love that. That really could have saved me a lot of headache.

Can you do that for root as well? E.g. if I want to boot using a linux
kernel that is on the iso9660 partition of the disk from which this EFI fat
was booted, how would I do that?

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So if I boot off of a CD, where there is both the (cd0) iso9660 partition
> > and the (cd0,msdos2) or whatever where the EFI fat32 image is, then ()
> gets
> > translated into (cd0) ?
> >
>
> Correct.
>
> > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Avi Deitcher <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> > what does '()' signify?
> >>
> >> The (whole) device grub was booted from (as long as this information
> >> is provided by firmware; it is for BIOS and EFI). '()' is replaced
> >> during initialization by actual device name referring to boot device.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Avi Deitcher
> > [email protected]
> > Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher
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>



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