From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RBCaP-0005Nu-Oh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:31:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 185C921C255; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B04A21C09B for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50B21B4029 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:30:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.399 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.399 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.800, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id geAFLYIIDN3D for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:30:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B071B401D for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBCYv-0006va-Te for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:30:05 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:30:05 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:30:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4E8AD6C4.7070901@gmail.com> <20111004110746.395635e0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4E8B1DD3.7050709@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d53a80df5480204c881be6b67852f029 On 2011-10-04, walt wrote: > The answer is to let grub2 find the correct disk by checking the UUID > of the *partition table* on each disk, and then load the boot sector > from only that disk without even knowing the /dev/sd* name or the > BIOS disk number. > > I'm assuming/hoping that the new EFI mechanism will make all of this > garbage obsolete fairly soon. If Microsoft gets their way, EFI will indeed make all of this obsolete, since it will (for all practical purposes) prohibit booting anything except pre-configured factory-certified installations of MS-Windows. > Anyone here understand the basics of EFI and how it might relate to > these problems? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Didn't I buy a 1951 at Packard from you last March gmail.com in Cairo?