Roger Binns wrote:
That is just the same mechanism as labels. Note however that you still
need a bootloader that can load the operating system kernel that has the
ZFS drivers.
Except, they can duplicate. But no need to quarrel here !
In the end, a DHCP-like system might evolve; scanning any
Uwe Dippel wrote:
> The logic for hda / sda dies on me too often.
My issue is that I frequently add and remove drives from my system. For
even more fun, the Linux drivers like to access the drives in a
different order than the bios.
> On the other hand, I wasted days of my life with labels;
I
Jason Thomas wrote:
> Everybody, No new functionality will be added to Grub Legacy!
I understand. The issue is that the distros all still use Grub Legacy!
From the Grub web pages it seems like Grub 2 isn't considered stable
yet. So us users are stuck with an unchangeable Grub Legacy and an
"un
Everybody, No new functionality will be added to Grub Legacy!
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:31:22AM -0800, Roger Binns wrote:
> If your patches will end up in the main grub legacy code so that my
> distro of choice (Gentoo) will end up picking them up then I'll gladly
> do the research about how to
Roger Binns wrote:
I didn't actually want to use a different (although enhanced) bootloader
:-) And I'd much rather use labels than sentinel files.
This is going to be a big deal for Linux real soon. The pata drivers
are now all handled by the scsi subsystem which just numbers disks in
th
adrian15 wrote:
> > You may be interested on borrowing the findf command from Super Grub
> > Disk source (check dev_grub/stage2/builtins.c (
> > http://supergrub.forjamari.linex.org).
I didn't actually want to use a different (although enhanced) bootloader
:-) And I'd much rather use labels tha
Roger Binns escribió:
I also considered the "find" command. eg I could put a sentinel file in
the correct partition and let Grub search to find that. But I couldn't
figure out how to make that part of the normal boot process as above.
You may be interested on borrowing the findf command from
Is there any way to specify a filesystem label for Grub, in particular
for the root entry? Note that I am not looking for how to do it for my
OS - that already works fine.
I couldn't find anything in the doc, and past questions seem to have
gone unanswered such as this one:
http://lists.gnu.org/
