Re: 'device ...' line in grub.cfg

[David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]]

​On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>
wrote:

> grub legacy upstream does not support this. efi support is part of
> 1.7MB large RedHat patch. It's rather amusing you ask upstream what
> this patch does :)
>
Yeah, I guess it might be. :) I was assigned as grub-legacy maintainer
after I have joined Red Hat last year. I'm not author of the patch, nor I
have much of a knowledge of grub code. (The package was a leftover which I
was assigned.) And people who were working on grub properly have either
already left the company, or they have moved to work on grub2. Asking them
about work they have done years ago sometimes just don't give you the
answers you're looking for. That's why I suggested we try to ask upstream
as well... ;)


> After cursory look at your patch, it assigns device names. So if your
> grub.conf (not grub.cfg) relies on specific device names (hd0, hd1
> etc) then it is likely necessary.
>

​Thank you for this. I hope it will narrow our area of search. :)

Best regards,

David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]

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