[coreboot] GRUB2 Questions

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Sat May 10 09:44:07 CEST 2008


Joe schrieb:
> Why would searching memdisk create a endless loop??
>   
If memdisk comes first (for whatever reason), and (memdisk)/grub.cfg 
looks for first occurrence of /grub.cfg on any device, it will find 
(memdisk)/grub.cfg, enter it, search again, enter itself, ...
Of course, it could be protected by a variable (similar to the 
#ifndef/#define stuff in C headers). But then, where should it look 
next, if it called itself?

> We could even specify only a few directories to search in to speed the
> search process up.
>   
"search" searches for an absolute path, and I think that makes sense. 
(You could, of course, search for both /grub.cfg and /boot/grub/grub.cfg)


Patrick




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