Re: GRUB device names wrt. ieee1275

[David Miller]

From: phcoder <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:48:14 +0100

> phcoder wrote:
> > Device name in boot block will anyway be written in it's complete raw OFW 
> > form, no matter how the rest of the grub2 accessing the disks. Using UUIDs 
> > in this place would be nice. On IRC you said that we have 120 bytes for the 
> > name. UUID is 16 or 32 bytes depending on FS. Is it possible to fit 
> > something like <read first sector> of every disk, <compare data at given 
> > offset>?
> Could we use label checksum for finding right disk?

And if I reconfigure or add a partition I have to rerun grub-install ?

I don't think that's a friendly usage model.