On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:21:08 +0200, Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
Joseph Smith wrote:
FILO searches for a filo.conf file on the first drive it finds
Scanning for drives has been considered before but always dismissed because it will potentially take a very long time for FILO to start if it needs to wait for drives to start.
Doesn't the drive have to start for FILO to invoke GRUB?
As an optional feature, everyone pretty much said they want to be able to do such a drive scan only a few days ago. Would be great if you want to hack on it! :)
I do think this would be better approach. I don't think scanning a top level directory would take very long. It wouldn't scan sub directories. Especially when the first drive it finds in the first partition root directory is usually your "/boot" partition. How many files are there, not many.