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Re: Support for search by disk id module
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: Support for search by disk id module |
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Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:38:28 +0300 |
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15.04.2017 14:27, Mat628 пишет:
> There is no established standard and this changed over time. GRUB uses
> platform firmware to access devices, so it can only use information
> firmware exports. In general we have no way to query for this information.
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> Would it be considered acceptable to call nativedisk.mod to allow for query
> of this information? i.e. instead of hd0 it would ata0 or usb0.
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a) You cannot really "call into" nativedisk; it replaces biosdisk which
has some consequences, like not being able to load anything that relies
on BIOS (most obvious is chainloading)
b) any solution should work for all platforms, not only i386-pc.