From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYN4-0006Jn-GD for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:41:34 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYN3-0006I7-13 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:41:33 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYMx-0006AS-Vr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:41:32 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaYMx-0006AC-Sw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:41:27 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:59337) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaYMx-0000xL-9v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:41:27 -0500 Received: from [192.168.100.121] (xdsl-78-34-183-36.netcologne.de [78.34.183.36]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MFAcd-1NYfu909P9-00Fn2v; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:41:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4B61CC45.8000405@web.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:41:25 +0100 From: edgar.soldin@web.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bean , The development of GNU GRUB References: <20100128114547.GI4409@riva.ucam.org> <4B619B17.7010709@web.de> <20100128145559.GK4409@riva.ucam.org> <4B61BDC0.4010008@web.de> <4B61C635.7000503@web.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+AyYV253sdLQfYBMUZ+KQo83r8HdMjRoAY3FK c+fM+nH1yW2uraY1PmkhGMXMbirNMxsx/Da4pfA2GKB2VRrLGG nQFasz5DzotiXn/UBFnEQ== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: 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? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:41:33 -0000 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, 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. > >