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From: Martin Rosenau <martin@rosenau-ka.de>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Boot sector for ext2
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 20:23:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDAA607.8000509@rosenau-ka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDA3F7C.60505@gmail.com>

Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> I find this very interesting.  The two alternatives that exist currently
> (or, at least, that I know of), namely (a) installing in the MBR (+ the
> following sectors), or (b) using block-lists, have well-known shortcomings.
> 
> With your solution, one could simply write the boot sector in an ext2
> partition's boot record, and put GRUB files in the ext2 filesystem.
> Whatever is in the MBR would then simply chainload the ext2 partition.
> Is this correct?

Yes. This is how it should work.

Martin



      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-21  7:31 Boot sector for ext2 Martin Rosenau
2011-05-21 18:00 ` Colin Watson
2011-05-23 11:05 ` Grégoire Sutre
2011-05-23 18:23   ` Martin Rosenau [this message]

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