Re: booting btrfs

[Michael Chang]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 05:08:49PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Michael Chang <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > OK. To be more verbose, the question of mine is that I'm uncertain if
> > we don't explicitly install to a partition using blocklists, the
> > /fs/core.img would still automatically get blocklists of itself
> > updated on it's own diskboot.S header or stay with default?
> >
> 
> On i386-pc you boot core.img by using "multiboot". It bypasses
> blocklists completely so it is irrelevant. On EFI you get standard EFI
> binary that you can "chainload".

Now I understand it, thanks for the explaination.

Regards,
Michael

> 
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW 30_os-prober will happily fetch boot entries from every existing
> >>>> snapshot, presenting them all with identical names and "merging" all
> >>>> boot entries from all snapshots because it generates the same menu id
> >>>> (it includes only fs UUID, but no subvolume information).
> >>>
> >>> Are you suggesting to use os-prober, instead sourced by master config
> >>> directly for inclusion of boot entries of snapshots ? Or I've
> >>> misinterpreted it?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Oh, sorry for confusion. I simply meant that current 30_os-prober is
> >> buggy and needs fixing. I think I have an idea how.
> >
> > You meant fixing 30_os-prober or getting btrfs snapshot booting to
> > work ?
> 
> I mean fixing 30_os-prober
> 
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