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Re: why does grub-installer prompt for a grub-style disk name?



Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:36:54PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > elijah wright wrote:
> > > whoa!  that would have saved me a large amount of trouble the other day -
> > > wanted to use grub on a machine, but couldn't quite get it working.  i
> > > guess this would have fixed it.
> > 
> > Although it's not documented, you can in fact use standard /dev names in
> > that question now.
> 
> There's a map file in /boot/grub, exact name eludes me right now. This is
> what allows you to use standard /dev names, and it can sometimes stuff you
> around if the map file is wrong. I believe current grub packages regenerate
> this map file on each grub-install run, which I believe is a Debian-specific
> feature in itself.

It's looking like we're going to have to get this mapping from /dev
names to grub names right anyway, if we want to offer *any* better UI
than "enter grub disk name:"

-- 
see shy jo

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