FWD: why does grub-installer prompt for a grub-style disk name?

[Jason Thomas]

ask the grub-installer team.

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:31:50PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> Jason, grub-install is in your domains. Any comments on this?
> 
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 03:19:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I'm passing this along fron the debian-boot list for your comments.
> > Please reply to the debian-boot list.
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> -----
> > 
> > From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:52:42 -0500
> > To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: why does grub-installer prompt for a grub-style disk name?
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
> > 
> > Users report annoyance that d-i uses so many different user-visible disk
> > names. There are the partition descriptions in partman ("IDE0 slave",
> > whatever), devfs, and in the back of most people's minds, standard /dev
> > naming. That's bad enough, but grub-installer adds to this grub's own
> > naming. So I was suprised to notice that grub-install accepts /dev/
> > filenames. Is there some reason to not use them by default?
> > 
> > If we did, then we could get rid of the long and scary description in
> > the grub question about how grub device names are structured. We could
> > even run mapdevfs on the name first, to use a "nicer" non-devfs device
> > name. This would not be as nice as giving the user a menu of devices and
> > partitions, or integrating boot device selection into partman, but it
> > would fix 50% of the annoyance, and could be done easily and quickly.
> > 
> > -- 
> > see shy jo
> 
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Jason

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