Re: why does grub-installer prompt for a grub-style disk name?
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.
> > maybe someone should confer with the grub upstream and ask if that's a
> > feature that can be expected to continue to exist?
>
> If the currently documented feature stops working, we can always file a
> bug. ;-)
See above.
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