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Re: [PATCH] grub-install message should mention --recheck


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grub-install message should mention --recheck
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:58:49 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:48:25AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Actually, grub-install should not dump the whole device.map to the
> screen.  It should only show the entries that it actually used during
> the installation.  If no device.map entries were used (which is true in
> 99% cases, I guess), there should be no message at all.

Is it 99, or 100% ?  I think the only case we have left is when user does:

  grub-install "(hd0)"

instead of:

  grub-install /dev/sda

and IMHO we should deprecate this syntax so users will stop assuming GRUB
will guess "(hd0)" as the first BIOS drive.

However, I think disk/host.c still needs device.map only to know which
devices have to be registered.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."




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