From: Bart Grantham <bart-grubdevel@bartgrantham.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB2 Sparc
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:14:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4338B912.90901@bartgrantham.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ll1l9bky.fsf@student.han.nl>
Marco Gerards wrote:
>>Specifically, how are you handling
>>different filesystem structures in the boot sector?
>
> On the PC the bootblock (512 bytes) load the GRUB kernel. This is a
> binary image with a maximum size of 32KB (IIRC). This is loaded from
> a fixed location and no filesystem specific code is involved.
I suppose that the consequences of this are that filesystems that don't
store the kernel contiguously (ie. compression, small-file consolidation
tricks) on disk will be incompatible with GRUB2? Don't get me wrong,
I think it's a reasonable tradeoff, I just want to make sure I
understand correctly.
BTW, how does one force a filesystem to store a file contiguously on
installation of the GRUB kernel?
BG
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-27 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-11 4:35 GRUB2 Sparc Bart Grantham
2005-09-12 7:25 ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-09-23 7:29 ` Bart Grantham
2005-09-23 13:56 ` Marco Gerards
[not found] ` <4335D770.6050002@chumps.net>
[not found] ` <87vf0pa067.fsf@student.han.nl>
2005-09-25 19:14 ` Bart Grantham
2005-09-25 19:44 ` Marco Gerards
2005-09-27 3:14 ` Bart Grantham [this message]
2005-09-27 8:51 ` Marco Gerards
2005-09-26 8:39 ` Vincent Pelletier
2005-09-26 8:33 ` Vincent Pelletier
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