From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MrfV8-0002qm-8F for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:22 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrfV6-0002oy-Ix for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MrfV1-0002m5-RA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54955 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MrfV1-0002ly-O6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:15 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:57484) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MrfV1-0006mN-Af for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:12:15 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so1061984fge.12 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:12:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xfqxTFEqltj4nTJC//KkFdAVdmoUq8gxDsyWL0ZAQUQ=; b=Bx0RTFTHBkUMxX+tmw3Cs7r9chwC8+ADOW/hsZ31ACJIwhLvXzT6zyKLrKGYEiWa9t QkV25j62t1cvNXIAkDxwvWaRLm0oe6HusPzcIR2PtjvPwdMKtBacnFs9NXcaKp/abtHg Hmvwq001OqtWPrKeZcJaYqCAqVRKAubrwmcvg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bStXmPKk6ICNOs1ZHxg1n1zoZzB56AEWtqtBBGyt+h18n2ZXwjZinCPAJbxbqj/eh2 2yY2j46cFFSGlrI0PLk7AKuJiSqKK7uRjEAi76uDLkTJS13pWAPAWiaGswqTnv7BiSZC nOrla27RIRFvy07nMhzqBVrFBkV0KBR57QT2A= Received: by 10.86.231.15 with SMTP id d15mr2076180fgh.74.1254003133615; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.16? ([81.62.99.218]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l19sm2202749fgb.15.2009.09.26.15.12.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABE91BB.8050805@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:12:11 +0200 From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090701) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20090926085720.GV13423@riva.ucam.org> <4ABE2A10.2010302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Protection of boot sector and embedded area 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: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:12:20 -0000 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I think it would be good if one could put grub into the beginning of a > partition. > The problem with this is that I don't know if there is room to put > grub at the beginning of an ext3 > or lvm partition. If it were possible, it would make grub much more > compatible with Dual boot systems. > Some partitions like reiserfs (64K reserved for bootloader) and lvm ("unusable space") have some space where core.img can be hold but such cases are a minority. XFS doesn't even have space for boot sector. ext* has only 2 sectors available. Too few. FAT32 has ~16K reserved. Too few. ZFS has 8K reserved. Too few. > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >