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 > > Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com > -- Avi Deitcher [email protected] Follow me http://twitter.com/avideitcher Read me http://blog.atomicinc.com _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
