From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1P0bVa-0001Ee-Jy for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:18 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33403 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0bVY-0001DZ-II for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bVX-0003sl-6Y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:16 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:53692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0bVX-0003sU-1h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:15 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CA66CD3C for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix, from userid 20367) id 039346E1E6; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:50:13 -0400 To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100928145013.GR8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20100923221923.GA21862@riva.ucam.org> <20100924002753.GE8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <197110.28172.qm@web113213.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <20100928080423.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> <897967.51633.qm@web113214.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <897967.51633.qm@web113214.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software 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: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:50:17 -0000 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:10:20AM -0700, Bogdan wrote: > Only one of the 4 primary partitions can be active. So, turn whatever is not > needed into an extended partition. What tools with this screw over? Or, are we > talking about OSes that don't support extended partitions here? That would probably require resizing the filesystem since a logical partition needs to leave space for the extended partition table, not to mentioned screw up alignment of partitions too. -- Len Sorensen