On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:25 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] <[email protected]> wrote: > Does UEFI part of grub-legacy reads this line (from grub.cfg)? > ----- > device (hd0) HD(1,123,123abc,01234567-89abcdef-01234567-89abcdef) >
grub legacy upstream does not support this. efi support is part of 1.7MB large RedHat patch. It's rather amusing you ask upstream what this patch does :) > In other words, is this line necessary for doing a boot on UEFI enabled > device? > After cursory look at your patch, it assigns device names. So if your grub.conf (not grub.cfg) relies on specific device names (hd0, hd1 etc) then it is likely necessary. > David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] > Associate Software Engineer > Brno, Czech Republic > > RED HAT | TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. > Every airline in the Fortune 500 relies on Red Hat. > Find out why at Trusted | Red Hat. > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:11 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So, this is not some debugging info from grub UEFI? And grub actually >> > reads >> > this during boot to find the specified device? >> > >> >> grub legacy or grub2? Reads *what*? Sorry, I still do not understand >> your question. >> >> > David Kaspar [Dee'Kej] >> > Associate Software Engineer >> > Brno, Czech Republic >> > >> > RED HAT | TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. >> > Every airline in the Fortune 500 relies on Red Hat. >> > Find out why at Trusted | Red Hat. > > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
