From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MTfk5-0005yU-6G for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:37 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTfk2-0005wI-UQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MTfjy-0005qW-65 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51186 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MTfjx-0005qJ-RD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:29 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:36498) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTfjx-0001zX-Bx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:29 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO smtprelay1.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.111]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 22 Jul 2009 13:36:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.22] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by smtprelay1.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 136E034C69 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20090722171612.GC8706@thorin> References: <20090717165140.GN11691@riva.ucam.org> <20090718184555.GH8867@thorin> <20090718191741.GM8867@thorin> <20090719100741.GA12723@riva.ucam.org> <20090722171612.GC8706@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:36:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1248284185.10707.4.camel@mj> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:36:35 -0000 On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 19:16 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > As a bootloader, most of the decisions GRUB takes have a critical effect. We > can't make GRUB take those decisions based on heuristic. Agreed. Sorry for being late in joining this discussion. It's not enough to make sure that there is some partitioning on the hard driver. boot.img has holes for FAT and PC MBR. That's two configurations we support. No other partition tables or filesystems are supported. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin