From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1P0gS9-0000CV-4B for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:05 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33567 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0gS6-0000AX-Ue for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0gS5-0002Lm-Hx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:02 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:33586) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0gS5-0002Lf-Bu for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:01 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C906DA18 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix, from userid 20367) id B687F6DA1A; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:07:00 -0400 To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100928200700.GV8579@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> <4CA23C71.9040601@gmail.com> <20100928191538.GU8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4CA2455D.2070105@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA2455D.2070105@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 20:07:04 -0000 On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:43:25PM +0200, Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder'= Serbinenko wrote: > GPT has new types. GPT has an msdos partition type for itself for use in hybrid setups. I know GPT partition tables have new types, but GPT itself has a type reserved in the old dos partition table. > in msdos there are only 255 possible types. Some are known to be used b= y > well known software but during 10 years of no central body for this and > everybody willing a type just taking one in self-service I think every > single type is used by either widely known or mostly unknown software. > And destroying someone's hobby OS would be a bad thing. And not having a reliable grub on actual used OSs isn't a bad thing? Someone's hobby OS could change if it was an issue. > GRUB has a design principle of being cross-platform installable. > Moreover the same disk can contain multiple grub installation. I > personally regularly move the disk between yeeloong and amd64 laptop, > well it has only one GRUB since on yeeloong my GRUB is in flash but it > could easily have one on disk too. If two architectures expect sector 0 to contain boot code, then that can't work. I certainly would not consider that a worthy design goal compared to lots of other things. --=20 Len Sorensen