On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:47:11AM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On 06/15/2010 01:21 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:12:38PM +0200, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > >> On 06/14/2010 18:43, Colin Watson wrote: > >>> Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with that? I'm not familiar > >>> with multiboot and need guidance. > >> > >> A possible solution would be to use the multiboot-command line. AFAIK, > >> the boot_device field of the multiboot information structure is supposed > >> to pass this kind of partition information, but you cannot specify the > >> partmaps in this field, hence its interpretation is ambiguous. > > > > That would potentially allow a user to override things, but doesn't help > > with users who don't change their configuration. Unless the user > > explicitly configures things, boot_device is all we've got. > > Apparently multiboot part has revealed to be a bit more tricky due to > heterogenity. Go ahead with non-multiboot part, I'll review multiboot > part separately (need to think about it a bit)
OK, thanks. I've committed the non-multiboot part as per http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-06/msg00093.html. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
