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Re: search command and usb boot
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: search command and usb boot |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:01:47 +0200 |
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Adrián <address@hidden> writes:
>> Why is this a problem?
>> This is only a problem when using search to look for files. I assume
>> this is what you are talking about? Thus you can not determine which
>> disk search will find?
>
> I will make a better explanation. I want to use the current feature from
> search command that saves into a variable the first partition where one
> file has been found.
>
> Once I have this variable I will be able to install grub2 'stage1' into
> the mbr.
You can't install GRUB 2 from GRUB 2, only by using grub-setup and
grub-install.
> So the usb problem is the following one:
>
> You are using the usb device as a rescue disk not as a normal linux
> boot device. So you do not want to reinstall grub on the usb itself (
> hd0 ) but on hd1, which it is, in fact, your first hard disk.
That sounds like something that can be scripted.
>> Adding the capability to use UUIDs can solve most of the problems you
>> encounter.
>
> Can you give me a link about documentation on UUIDs I do not know what
> does mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUID
>> The (existing) label feature can also be used.
>
> label gives the hard disk labels and also the cdrom label ?
To be more precise: It gives the label of the filesystem. Perhaps it
is not implemented in every fileystem (you could check that). In that
case it should be added to our TODO list.
--
Marco