Re: Need grub interface -- define specifics
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:40 am, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
ndbecker2(a)verizon.net wrote:
> I found it was very difficult to find information on how to repair this.
> The grub info itself has lots of detail, but is remarkably short on basic
> howto.
> Anyway, what Fedora can really use is a way to rerun grub-install,
> possibly with changed parameters.
> I am a highly experienced user, but I have to do grub-install just
> infrequently enough that it's always a major PIA to dig up the info on
> how to do it.
>
>From my understanding, this is caused by differences in BIOS disk number
to Linux disk device mappings. It's difficult to compensate for this issue
automatically, regardless of LILO or GRUB.
Maybe there is a way to automatically extract the BIOS disk number and then
re-create the mapping file. But when do you do it? Sometimes people just
swap disks once, but should it be run automatically then?
Detail what it _should_ do _exactly_ and then I can better tell you if it
is feasible or not.
Perhaps I missed something in this discussion, but if anaconda can (almost
always) setup grub correctly once, why can't we have an application, perhaps
based on the same code, to redo the process? If I understand, you are saying
the job is difficult, but it's already been solved once. Is this not
correct?