Re: grub2 bug and question

[M. Gerards]

Quoting Sergey Matveychuk <address@hidden>:

> Hello.
> 
> I've begun work with grub2 sources. There is some progress.
> 
> I've found a bug:
> util/pupa-emu.c:main() - grub2 can't guess a root device because 
> pupa_guess_root_device() called before pupa_util_biosdisk_init().
> 
> pupa_guess_root_device() use map[] before it's filled in 
> pupa_util_biosdisk_init().


Thanks for the report.  I will have a look at this problem in the weekend.
Can you descibe how I can reproduce your problem?

> Question: it's looks like a root command get only disk name (root (hd0)) 
> and don't understand old syntax: root (hd0,1,a)?

My guess is that no one worked on BSD support.  There is something there, but I
am not sure if it is tested.

The root command will be removed and variables will be used instead.  For 
example:

root=(hd0,1)

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Marco