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Re: grub-probe, but in reverse?


From: Pavel Roskin
Subject: Re: grub-probe, but in reverse?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:19:19 -0400

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:36 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> They're entered by users choosing where to install GRUB, whom we can
> hardly expect to enter UUIDs by hand.

Likewise, we shouldn't expect them to enter drives in the GRUB notation,
such as "(hd0)".

>  Perhaps we can figure out how to
> give them a select list of available choices, which could then include
> UUIDs behind the scenes ...

Yes, something like that.  Users should be able to choose the disk by
its size, maker, Linux device name.

Maybe GRUB could support disk UUID eventually, but in the meantime, a
UUID of one of the partitions would do, as long as it's indeed unique.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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