Bug#473401: grub-installer: grub2 config for Windows partition does not boot
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
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> Looking at grub-probe I also think we might be able to further simplify
> grub-installer by calling it with a path instead of a device, but that can
> wait until later. Adding a comment for that could be useful though.
Path resolution in grub-probe is expensive. If you reliably know the device,
it is better if you feed it that. Otherwise it will traverse /dev to find it.
The idea here is to avoid trouble derived from broken fstab (very common when
installing grub from inside a chroot or so). But if you're in a controlled
environment like D-I, this shouldn't be an issue.
> What about the hurd_convert function in grub-installer?
This should stay, it's outside the scope of grub-probe.
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