Re: PATCH: only allow selection of devices known by booty as bootloader target disk

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 22:48 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > The attached patch only allows selection of devices known by booty as 
> > bootloader target disk, fixing the crash reported in bug 454135
>
> The bigger question to me is what situations exist where there's a drive
> in the diskset that's *not* in booty's drive list.

One word: iscsi (or you could have read the referenced ticket)

And I guess we will get cases in the future where some cool storage technology 
gets added and booty does know anything about disks coming from that cool 
storage technology. Even if it would be possible to install a bootloader on 
that new technology, I still think getting a bug report that the disk using new 
cool technology cannot be selected to install the bootloader to, is better then 
a bug with a backtrace, which is what currently happens.

Regards,

Hans


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