bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #19776, cannot specify the current disk

 
 

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bug #19776: cannot specify the current disk

Submitted by:  Michal `hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach>
Submitted on:  Wed 02 May 2007 07:44:30 PM UTC  
 
Category: ConfigurationSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 0.97
Release: NoneReproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None

Sat 15 Dec 2007 09:52:27 PM UTC, comment #1:

We've moved to GRUB 2 as a development platform. Please can you check if this bug still applies there, and if it does, reopen it?

In particular, I believe that the drive from which GRUB was loaded propagates to the $root envinronmental variable (yes, GRUB 2 has env vars).

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>
Project Administrator
Wed 02 May 2007 07:44:30 PM UTC, original submission:

There is a possibility to specify exact kernel location or to use root and specify the kernel relative to root.

However, both options requre to specify a bios drive number.

In many cases it would be desirable to be able to specify "the drive from which grub was loaded" because the system is on the same drive as grub. This way grub would be able to load the system even if the numbering changes.

Michal `hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach>

 

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