From: edgar.soldin@web.de
To: Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com>,
The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:41:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B61CC45.8000405@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59981001280936o4457ff96wc95dad6f238ff461@mail.gmail.com>
Any reason why you keep this of list?
Well, in case of boot code size does matter as boot records are limited
in size. Or? .. ede
On 28.01.2010 18:36, Bean wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:15 AM,<edgar.soldin@web.de> wrote:
>
>> So grubinst bootcode seems superior over grub2 bootcode regarding
>> partitions?
>>
> Hi,
>
> Actually they both have advantages. Assembly is hard to write and
> maintain, but much smaller, C is larger but portable. In cases where
> size is not a matter, it's better to use C code.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-28 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-28 3:37 Is it possible to have grub2's boot.img as my MBR, but have it look in a separate partition for core.img? Wesley Smith
2010-01-28 11:45 ` Colin Watson
2010-01-28 14:11 ` edgar.soldin
2010-01-28 14:55 ` Colin Watson
2010-01-28 16:39 ` edgar.soldin
[not found] ` <ca0f59981001280857p5f581035n4cd8519efda30e8@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-28 17:15 ` edgar.soldin
[not found] ` <ca0f59981001280936o4457ff96wc95dad6f238ff461@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-28 17:41 ` edgar.soldin [this message]
2010-01-29 5:43 ` Wesley Smith
2010-01-29 6:19 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-01-29 9:54 ` Wesley Smith
2010-01-29 9:48 ` Grégoire Sutre
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