[Nix-dev] GRUB 2!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> writes:

> BTW, one thing I've been wanting to do is get rid of the
> boot.loader.grub.bootDevice option.  It should be possible for the menu builder
> to figure out itself whether /boot is on a separate partition.  The only tricky
> thing is that it has to map /boot to Grub's device name (like (hd0,0)).  But
> maybe that's easier in GRUB 2.

GRUB 2 has a ‘search’ command, which can take a UUID of filesystem label
and return the GRUB device, IIUC.  So that may be helpful, too.

Thanks,
Ludo’.