Re: [RFC] Dynamic device.map

[Bruce Dubbs]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Just leave it with (/dev/foo).
> > You mean literally with the parentheses? I don't understand, since /dev/
> > names will be unintelligible to GRUB when running outside an operating
> > system.
>
> Yes.  This just means we'd have "set root=(/dev/foo)" statements in grub.cfg,
> but those are just meant as a backward compatibility hack for pre-UUID GRUB
> installs.

Are you are implying that UUID will be the only way?  I don't use 
initrd's on my systems so I need root=(hd0,x) or root=(/dev/foo).
AFAIK initrd is the only way to load with UUIDs.

  -- Bruce