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boot-directdisk: allow specifying custom MBR disk signature
authorJonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:19:45 +0000 (03:19 +0000)
committerSaul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:07:24 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commit4382a419b4c90312d22aa55ff535b45bcf704716
tree42bd0a51a5f707ad77b5854043f4739c257ab3d9
parentfbc198113548783e326eebbb6b28b181528e900f
boot-directdisk: allow specifying custom MBR disk signature

This introduces a DISK_SIGNATURE variable that allows controlling the
32-bit MBR disk signature. By default it is set to an automatically
generated disk signature but it may by overridden in the image recipe
by setting DISK_SIGNATURE to a 8 digit hex string.

This DISK_SIGNATURE variable can also be used in the image recipe to
specify the root by UUID using:
SYSLINUX_ROOT = "root=PARTUUID=${DISK_SIGNATURE}-02"

Specifying the root by UUID allows the kernel to locate the root
filesystem even if the device name changes (e.g. /dev/hda2, /dev/hdb2 or
/dev/sdb2 instead of /dev/sda2) due to differences in hardware
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Darren hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
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