From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GPT BIOS boot partition and installing to a partition
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:14:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEC8C91.3090703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8658f80910311209o2cf1463by8ffe80cf4c441258@mail.gmail.com>
Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
> phcoder wrote:
>
>> Workaround for your problem is described here:
>> http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnMacbook
>>
>
> Are you talking about fix_video? When I tested, without fix_video I
> could use the console, but X was slow. With fix_video, X was
> accelerated, but the console was scrambled as soon as X started.
>
>
This is X bug then
>>>> the best way is to use first sector of [BIOS Boot Partition]
>>>>
>
> This only works if the BBP is in the MBR. In my configuration, there
> are already 4 partitions in the MBR, with no room for the BBP. That's
> why I want to embed the boot-image in another partition, and have it
> pass control to the BBP.
>
GRUB2 doesn't need BBP to be in pseudo-MBR to boot
> Dave
>
>
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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-31 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <d8658f80910310215t2892982era860dbf083c1c9c8@mail.gmail.com>
2009-10-31 18:29 ` GPT BIOS boot partition and installing to a partition Dave Vasilevsky
2009-10-31 18:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-10-31 18:50 ` Dave Vasilevsky
2009-10-31 18:55 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-10-31 19:09 ` Dave Vasilevsky
2009-10-31 19:14 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]
2009-10-31 23:55 ` Michael Scherer
2009-11-01 11:58 ` Robert Millan
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