From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Success report: GRUB2, LVM, GPT, AMD64, Debian Installer
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:25:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090817132559.GD32551@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090814074333.GM26402@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:43:34AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
>
> A short success report about using GRUB2 on a LVM-only system, with GPT
> instead of the usual MBR booting, on a AMD64 system, installed with the
> 20090531-7 Debian Installer.
>
> I had the DI create a GPT partition table, partitioned that into a small
> (1 MiB) GRUB booting partition (as suggested on
> <http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition>, which I had found by pure
> chance),
Hi Thomas,
Glad everything's working fine for you.
We try our best to explain why blocklists are problematic, why embedding is
the preferred setup, and why embedding on GPT is not possible without the
BBP as a dedicated partition.
If you think this could be better explained, suggestions are welcome.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
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2009-08-14 7:43 Success report: GRUB2, LVM, GPT, AMD64, Debian Installer Thomas Schwinge
2009-08-17 13:25 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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