From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1EK5wM-0002j9-T4 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:15:35 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EK5wJ-0002hc-1q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:15:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EK5wF-0002fg-Eb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:15:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EK5wE-0002eS-FJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:15:26 -0400 Received: from [64.246.60.36] (helo=orange.8dg.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EK5vf-0008QG-Hy for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:14:51 -0400 Received: from p66-178.acedsl.com ([66.114.66.178] helo=[192.168.186.39]) by orange.8dg.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1EK5v7-0001OA-Mb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:14:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4338B912.90901@bartgrantham.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:14:26 -0400 From: Bart Grantham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4323B40E.20909@bartgrantham.com> <43252D74.5050001@yahoo.fr> <4333AEF4.6010205@bartgrantham.com> <87fyrvdh1l.fsf@student.han.nl> <4335D770.6050002@chumps.net> <87vf0pa067.fsf@student.han.nl> <4336F710.8030000@bartgrantham.com> <87ll1l9bky.fsf@student.han.nl> In-Reply-To: <87ll1l9bky.fsf@student.han.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orange.8dg.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - bartgrantham.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: GRUB2 Sparc 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: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:15:33 -0000 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