Re: [bug #38035] Off by one error in enumerating MSDOS partitions

[Michael Chang]

2013/1/21 Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden>:
> В Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:37:26 +0100
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:
>
>> On 20.01.2013 22:33, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>
>> > В Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:26:58 +0100
>> > Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:
>> >
>> >> On 09.01.2013 22:31, Vladimir Serbinenko wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Follow-up Comment #5, bug #38035 (project grub):
>> >>>
>> >>> I will commit the patch but I want first to be sure that bigger problem 
>> >>> behind
>> >>> this patch is adressed. There are other cases when the numbering doesn't 
>> >>> match
>> >>> e.g. in presence of solaris or BSD partitions.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Ping?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Sorry, I did not realize it was the question.
>> >
>> > Which bigger problem do you mean?
>>
>> That you pass arguments to grub-install in hdX,Y syntax. It breaks in
>> many scenarios as there is absolutely no guarantee that Linux and GRUB
>> partition numbering matches.
>>
>
> This is outside of my control, sorry. I do not maintain or even
> understand how YaST2 works. I Cc mchang who maintains grub2 in
> (open)SUSE.

Yes, for now we still counts on device.map and specify (hdX,Y) as
install device. We are trying to resolve it and facilitate the
(kernel, by-id and by-label ...) as install device name that grub2 had
improved but due to some issue it's not done yet.

There's no strong reason we must keep the (hdX,Y)/device.map in yast
but due to grub|grub2 shared same infrastructure we need to
re-implement (and re-consider) some stuff.

Thanks,
Michael