Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1660 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 12 December 2009 19:09:28 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Saturday, 2009-12-12 at 17:31 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > AIUI:
> >
> > 1-device.map is used by the grub shell
> > 2-grub _shell_ is not part of normal boot process
> >
> > Maybe I have something about this mixed up and it is Bob S's 11.2 device
> > map that needs fixing.
> >
> > Does Grub v1 actually know how to use /dev/disk* entries? I don't
> > remember ever seeing device.map files of more than 45 or so bytes on any
> > of my 11.2 or Factory installs, too small to be using /dev/disk* strings
> > for mapping.
>
> As far as I know, grub only understands the (hdX,Y) entries. The rest are
> read by the kernel once it loads.
>
> > Do mkinitrd or perl-Bootloader depend on correct device.map entries to
> > function correctly?
>
> I don't know what relly uses that file.
I read somewhere, can't find it right now, that Grub uses it when it gets 
confused about something. Disk order?  Dunno

Bob S
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