From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1F2AXB-0002eS-MN for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:03:45 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2AX8-0002dN-Jn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:03:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F2AX5-0002cM-On for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:03:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F2AX5-0002bw-0j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:03:39 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.32] (helo=smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F2AUf-0006sn-Px for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:01:10 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0QH0dvM072996 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:00:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87y814x8dc.fsf@xs4all.nl> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:00:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Poe Chen's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:21:28 -0500") Message-ID: <87fynaapqg.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: Problem installing GRUB2 on a 2.1TB system 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: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:03:44 -0000 Poe Chen writes: Hi, > [root@colossus ~]# mount > /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /sys type sysfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/sda4 on /home type ext3 (rw) > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) Hm, it should be able to detect ext3, weird. I will test grub-probefs some day. :-) > And you are right about boot sector with EFI GPT. I'm having a hard time to > get GRUB2 boot even after I install GRUB2 "successfully" on the disk (a > different system though). If I've ever run parted again, it will recover > the "corrupted" partition table, GRUB2 is gone.... This is what actually should happen. Either parted or the BIOS notices the partition table was destroyed and recovers it. > So is there any plan to support EFI in GRUB2 at all? =) Yes, I think so. :) -- Marco