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Re: [PATCH] Make grub-mkconfig fail if GRUB_FS cannot be determined
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [PATCH] Make grub-mkconfig fail if GRUB_FS cannot be determined |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:12:12 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 12:50:48PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Commit c0f90770b89e05730919e7d97cc9abeb84232777 caused grub-mkconfig
> to carry on anyway if "grub-probe --target=fs /" fails. However,
> this was in 2007 when GRUB's filesystem support was much less
> complete. Nowadays this can be expected to only fail in bad
> situations, and will almost certainly lead to the generated grub.cfg
> being useless, so it makes no sense for grub-mkconfig to succeed.
Vladimir makes the reasonable argument on IRC that this will break if
you have a / that GRUB doesn't understand but a /boot that it does,
which in general is supposed to be supported. I withdraw this patch.
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Colin Watson address@hidden