From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MYZA3-0004PK-V7 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:35:40 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYZA1-0004PC-9s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:35:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYZ9v-0004O2-Rv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:35:36 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50263 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYZ9v-0004Nz-Jc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:35:31 -0400 Received: from mailout01.t-online.de ([194.25.134.80]:60495) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYZ9v-0006Td-1D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:35:31 -0400 Received: from fwd09.aul.t-online.de by mailout01.t-online.de with smtp id 1MYZ9s-000573-00; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:35:28 +0200 Received: from [10.3.2.2] (bLcFaoZGwhWxlCcO9f9ShIa7cPFYVsDtjligLnnmIpF65wnrPsZAYmiX+0qj2+eZvp@[217.235.193.122]) by fwd09.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1MYZ9q-1hvx9U0; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:35:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4A791A24.8050602@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:35:32 +0200 From: Christian Franke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20090802232422.GA23320@thorin> <20090804192715.GA14820@thorin> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ID: bLcFaoZGwhWxlCcO9f9ShIa7cPFYVsDtjligLnnmIpF65wnrPsZAYmiX+0qj2+eZvp X-TOI-MSGID: 4827bbe3-db23-4d0f-b4f0-36fb2feef6ed X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] ntldr support 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: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:35:37 -0000 Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Robert Millan<...> wrote: > >> After thinking a bit about this, I don't think we want this command in >> its current form. >> >> The problem is it is misleading. It leads the user to think it can load >> ntldr as a standalone file, but in fact it is reading the PBR behind the >> scenes. >> >> > I don't think it's of any problem since ntldr uses this PBR only as > superblock to identify the partition. As such I would rather consider > this loading as a special case of passing $root, just the form of it > is a bit weird > > Agree. A 'ntldr' or 'chainloader --ntldr' command is not mandatory. But it is 'nice to have' because it allows to boot even if the boot code (6 sectors) in the area behind the PBR is not present for whatever reason. See my previsions mail with the test case. -- Regards, Christian Franke