[CentOS] Strange (?) device.map in CentOS 7 VM installations

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Fri Jan 6 17:55:29 UTC 2017


Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 01/06/2017 07:11 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
>> Any feedback regarding this "issue" and its possible repercussions
>> will be appreciated!
>
> Probably none.  That file indicates which Linux device file corresponds
> to the (hdX) references in grub.cfg.  I'm not really sure it's even used
> under grub2, since I don't see any of the (hdX) references in grub.cfg
> on the system I checked.

It's used. I can assure you of that, having had to fight one or two
systems back and bootable again....

    mark




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