From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mtH-000253-0n for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:21:55 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mtG-00024v-BP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:21:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mtE-00024j-IL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:21:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6mtE-00024g-EQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:21:52 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6mvQ-0004Ex-Sb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:24:09 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345A03CA74C49 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB1F3CA74C48 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:21:59 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:21:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <87slkr2kgs.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> <200607280020.42679.okuji@enbug.org> <87irliiqtp.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> In-Reply-To: <87irliiqtp.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607291321.48193.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.494491, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: Support for RAID in grub-setup 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: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:21:54 -0000 On Friday 28 July 2006 01:13, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It would be possible to calculate how to write the image to the file > so it ends up being a consecutive image on the physical disk. But I > think it's not worth the trouble, especially given that we can always > embed the kernel if we keep the size below the 31k. It would depend on the user... AFAIK, some stupid Windows software wants to use that region for something else. > Yes, core.img is embedded after the MBR on the specific disk. If you > can boot from a disk, it's a pretty safe to assume thatt you can also > read core.img for the same disk. Core.img includes the RAID module and > that is used to read everything else it needs. Nice! Okuji