Make grub know which disks are which so we can boot
Registered by
Ian Jackson
Find some way to make grub know which BIOS disk numbers (0x80, 0x81, etc.) correspond to which Linux whole-disk block devices (/dev/hda, /dev/sda, etc.), or make this information not be required in order to boot.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Tim Gardner
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Ubuntu Kernel Team
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- Accepted for gutsy
- Implementation:
-
Slow progress
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Ian Jackson
- Completed by
- Ben Collins
Whiteboard
assigned spec to kernel team; please choose an appropriate person
punting this to Tim for initial testing of an EDD enabled kernel to find the problematic hardware for fixing the bug that prevents us from doing this correctly.
2008-02-25 BenC: Hardy kernel has EDD enabled by default in server kernels, and available to other flavors via the edd=on kernel command line option.
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