On 10/04/2011 07:53 AM, Dale wrote: > Could this fix the mess with /usr and /var having to be on / or a initramfs?
I'm using grub2 because it fixes a different problem that has always needed an initramfs--but not the recently lamented separate /var problem. I have an outboard ESATA disk that I can plug into various machines for making backups. If the outboard disk is powered on during boot/reboot, the BIOS will detect the disks in a different order so that old grub tries to load the boot sector from the outboard disk instead of the internal one, and fails. The answer is to let grub2 find the correct disk by checking the UUID of the *partition table* on each disk, and then load the boot sector from only that disk without even knowing the /dev/sd* name or the BIOS disk number. I'm assuming/hoping that the new EFI mechanism will make all of this garbage obsolete fairly soon. Anyone here understand the basics of EFI and how it might relate to these problems?
