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Re: [PATCH] Remove root drive support
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Remove root drive support |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:09:38 -0400 |
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:30 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> I think we could implement partition addressing by a contained
> filename.
> As long as GRUB can read the filesystem at all, it should be
> able to
> read filenames.
> Otherwise the filesystem needs improvement
The great thing is that we don't even need the ability to read
directories, so we can support PXE and other very limited filesystems.
> Then we would specify grub_prefix as
>
> (FILE=/boot/grub/FSID)/boot/grub
>
> FSID could be a random string or is could be the filesystem
> UUID as read
> by the OS. grub-setup would create such file and hardcode the
> corresponding grub_prefix into core.img.
> Good idea. Do you want to implement it?
The kernel side was easy. The patch is attached. Actually, I'm not
sure I got the disk ID right. I copied it from fs_uuid.c, but I need to
recheck it.
We still need the userspace changes.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
01-fs_file.patch
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Re: [PATCH] Remove root drive support, Robert Millan, 2009/06/19