Re: search and boot using GPT GUID values

[Isaac Dupree]

On 04/06/10 04:22, Simon Kitching wrote:
> So what do you think about
>    (a) adding root=GUID as a kernel option

That's something you need to ask Linux folks, not GRUB folks.  For 
non-initrd usage, it sounds plausible to me that you'd have a chance of 
achieving some linux-kernel-change (as long as you restrict the 
code-bloat to when GPT or a similar partition-table-format-with-uuids is 
enabled in the kernel-config).  But it ought to work in common initrds 
too, not just non-initrd mode! (Distributors, such as Debian, I think 
are the people who arrange initrds currently...)  So you have a few 
people to chase down, and ask, and possibly follow up by sending patches 
to, etc... good luck! Be ingenious in response to flames!

>    (b) optionally using the search command from (1) above
> so that something like the following can be done:

gpt-guid has been discussed on this GRUB list quite recently -- did you 
see Vladmir's post?
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg15345.html

-Isaac