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Re: GRUB device names wrt. ieee1275


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: GRUB device names wrt. ieee1275
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:18:46 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:41:16PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Robert Millan <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:45:31 +0100
> 
> > It's not an absolute must that device names are unique.  You can still
> > identify partitions by their filesystem UUID or label, and in fact this
> > is what our default scripts (grub-mkconfig) do anyway.
> 
> Things like UUID and labels are not an option for the 512-byte
> boot block where I have to know the exact OBP path of the boot
> device, and this is what the GRUB kernel fetches from the
> 'bootpath' environment variable to compose the root device
> and path.

What 512-byte boot block?

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Robert Millan

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