11 Sep
2005
11 Sep
'05
8:53 p.m.
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 13:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Why should the kernel/initrd-loaded stage care anything at all about bios when finding the root partition? /boot has to be found by bios, of course, but I'm pretty sure I've put / partitions on drives with no bios access at all that nothing knows about until the kernel is loaded and probes for them.
Okay, I get what you mean. But there is still the /boot mapping issue. In other words, whatever you boot (be it / or a separate /boot), you still have issues.
So I agree that disk labels are _great_ for all filesystems to avoid such things, even for GRUB. But there are still boot-time mapping issues before you get to that stage.
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