Re: [PATCH] UUID boot on ieee1275 (Re: [PATCH] use UUIDs for cross-disk installs (Re: Issue with boot != root and chainloading))

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:58PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:37:37PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > I'm not satisfied with the current user interface of that script, but I
> > couldn't think of any better way to do it back then.  If you can improve
> > it that'd be much welcome.
> > 
> > Btw, I'm currently working on adding --prefix / uuid support to our
> > ieee1275 ports.  I'll send a patch RSN.
> 
> Here it is.  For powerpc it'd need some adjustment to start.S.  Unfortunately
> my patch appears to uncover a memory corruption problem somewhere else, which
> I haven't managed to track down yet.
> 
> But I'd still like to know if it works on other setups.

OTOH, if --prefix is used to override prefix to a value that is not of
the '(UUID=xxx)' form, it works just fine.

So I'm submitting a patch that implements --prefix, without having grub-install
use it.  This is useful already (for manual installs), and I'd like to use that
--prefix option for Coreboot later too.

-- 
Robert Millan

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