On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch implements UUID support in ext2, then in grub-probe and search > command, and finally in update-grub scripts. > > The result is that when UUID can be used (i.e. our /boot is ext2), update-grub > puts the number in grub.cfg as a parameter to search command, and no longer > relies on hardcoded values for the `root' variable. > > This is very helpful specially when device.map only maps to broken drive > names (which happens always on OFW and sometimes on BIOS).
Nice, this is a much needed feature in grub2. BTW, I think we can embed the UUID of the root device in core.img/grub.elf, so that when the traditional root device fails to locate normal.mod, it uses the UUID to scan for root device. -- Bean _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
