Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:18:27PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > No, I don't think we will. grub-probe is perfectly capable of mapping
> > /dev/sda1 to (hd0,1) even without device.map;
> 
> I wasn't very fond of this because it's BIOS-specific.  But I guess we can
> live with it.

On second thought, I'm really not convinced we need this kind of logic.  It
seems a lot like a workaround.

Just leave it with (/dev/foo).  If you remove device.map generation from
grub-install, you can remove the backward compatibility hack while at it.
Then we rely only on UUIDs.

In the future, we can rely on the initial value of $root as well, but this
would require some rework (disk / partition split).

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Robert Millan

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