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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