From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:29:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080629112911.GD2347@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214601899.9513.58.camel@dv>
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:24:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We have a serious problem with installing onto partitions (e.g.
> grub-install /dev/sda1) and drives with geometry that doesn't leave
> enough space for core.img to be embedded before the first partition.
> While it's not a desirable configuration, it should work, but it
> doesn't.
Do we really want to support this? I don't think there's any reliable way
to tell where filesystem metadata starts. So unless we're talking about a
dedicated partition, this sounds like a no-go.
--
Robert Millan
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<DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-27 21:24 [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later? Pavel Roskin
2008-06-28 4:46 ` Bean
2008-06-28 4:58 ` Bean
2008-06-30 22:43 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-28 9:09 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-06-29 11:29 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-06-29 13:23 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-06-29 17:38 ` Robert Millan
2008-06-29 17:44 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-06-29 21:10 ` Robert Millan
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