From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk69J-0007OR-B1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:21:13 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk69H-0007O3-7S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:21:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk69G-0007Nr-1i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:21:10 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk69F-0007No-U9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:21:09 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk62Z-0004Kd-8f for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 18:14:15 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk62W-00044L-GC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 00:14:12 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk63b-0000Wv-Va for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 00:15:19 +0200 Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 00:15:19 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070504221519.GA1960@aragorn> References: <20070501191808.GA19766@aragorn> <5f4e66f70705030633w2dc3492dtdd34bb69da58fcbd@mail.gmail.com> <20070503141708.GA1668@aragorn> <5f4e66f70705030727u12b40f5al56260660d5afce95@mail.gmail.com> <5f4e66f70705041332s2d42eb9ava289910ed5ae339a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5f4e66f70705041332s2d42eb9ava289910ed5ae339a@mail.gmail.com> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers 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: Fri, 04 May 2007 22:21:11 -0000 On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:32:00PM +0200, Javier Rodríguez Sánchez wrote: > Hello, I have tried the patch and it works well, but I have one question. > It's necessary to be a MBR partition scheme? because I need a MBR > emulation from the GPT scheme to Grub2 loader works. If I only let the GPT > scheme with the EFI protective partition on MBR, grub doesn't find any > bootable device. This patch is intended for systems using PC/BIOS/MBR boot system, whose "standard" partition layout is msdos-style, but have opted to use GPT instead for the partitions. GPT is the standard in EFI, but this patch shouldn't have any effect on EFI systems (these already have GPT support). -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.