From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1DIhil-0004Vd-A0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:39:31 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIhid-0004Qu-Ju for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:39:24 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIhiW-0004Lr-5S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:39:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIhiT-0004If-FR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:39:13 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DIi5V-0000c8-GQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 03:03:01 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280099C40 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:02:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25282-04 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:02:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6529C35 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:02:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A6BC048 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:02:52 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <78d5a6962754dbc4b0f64fb15ffd7b79@penguinppc.org> <42521A4A.6040409@mauery.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:02:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42521A4A.6040409@mauery.com> (Vernon Mauery's message of "Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:55:38 -0700") Message-ID: <87oectaeoz.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: partition layouts 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: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 06:39:29 -0000 Vernon Mauery writes: > Putting a restraint that says /boot/grub must be a separate > partition doesn't sound like a good idea. It just clutters the > partition table with another small partition. For the apple this was always the case already. It is something we can not change. > If all it gains us is that we know where we booted from, we still > need to know where /boot is. I don't see what this gains us -- the > root command or prefix variable is still required. It sounds to me > that if you want to have a firmware native partition type, having > all of /boot be that type would be preferred. The discussion is about automatically setting prefix. -- Marco