On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Felix Zielcke
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Am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009, 10:12 -0500 schrieb Harvey Chapman:
> Is there a way to always select the last partition on a disk? I'd like
> to boot the same menu.lst on different machines and I know that I
> always want the last partition on the first disk.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
No there isn't.
Would it be possible to do it in code kind of like how the "find"
command works? That is, use the drive specified and keep calling
next_partition() until the last partition is reached? I saw a comment
in the code that next_partition() may not be reliable. I'm perfectly
willing to modify my local copy of grub to do this, but I wanted to
sound the idea off of the existing developers to make sure it is
possible. Perhaps I could add a special partition number, '$' (to borrow from regular _expression_ syntax), which could mean last partition?