Detection of boot devices by a linux kernel

[adrian15]

        First question:
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        Once a Kernel has booted can request the bios the different boot
devices and try to open them with a bios-disk driver or whatever the
name is?

        
        Current problems:
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        I do not know what's the live cd / non-live cd installer algorithm for
detecting which grub device corresponds to which linux device.
        There's a man in hardwareguys.com which gets some strange results. He
installing Linux in his 4th drive and as long as it is detected as
/dev/sdg then the linux assign it: hd6 . :)

http://forums.hardwareguys.com/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=21;t=5731;&#top

        Probable solution:
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        If the answer for the first question is that NO here there is my
solution to problem.

        We should make a command that iterates all the hard disks boot devices
and looks for the uuid from the hard disks. Once it has done so it saves
the result into a variable.

        Then we can boot a kernel and pass this variable as a parametrer.

        Example:
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        grub> set
        prefix=(cd)/boot/grub/
        root=(cd)
        grub> detectboot -s biosdevices
        grub> set
        root=(cd)
        biosdevices=hd0|ffkei|hd1|ereok|hd2|er455
        grub> linux /boot/knoppix-6.0-kernel root=/dev/ram 
grubdevices=$biosdevices
        grub> initrd /boot/knoppix-6.0-initrd
        grub> boot

        Then thanks to the "grubdevices=hd0|ffkei|hd1|ereok|hd2|er455" string
found in /proc/cmdline the knoppix boot scripts can check the uuid for
each detected hard disk and generate a valid devices.map file.

        Any comments on this?
        

        adrian15