From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:58:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130208185836.GB20462@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51154A74.3000302@gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:56:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> You don't need an EFI system to give GRUB enough space. You just
> need to partition the drive so the first partition starts at 1MB
> instead of sector 63. I think using a GPT partition scheme is quite
> preferred over the MSDOS scheme designed 30 years ago.
That's true. Does grub-install check the partition table to see how much
room there is before placing itself after the MBR? I haven't checked
that since I tend to use GPT these days.
> I will note that this causes problems for some systems, but I
> haven't seen it since I don't do windows.
--
Len Sorensen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-08 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-07 10:47 GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX Martin Wilck
2013-02-08 11:44 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-08 16:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-08 17:17 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-08 17:17 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-08 18:42 ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-02-08 18:56 ` Bruce Dubbs
2013-02-08 18:58 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2013-02-08 19:11 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-18 15:42 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-09 6:22 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-18 17:16 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-18 21:07 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 5:02 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-19 6:24 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 8:43 ` Michael Chang
2013-02-19 9:06 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 18:54 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 8:47 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19 18:56 ` Chris Murphy
2013-02-19 19:46 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19 9:37 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 12:58 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19 15:48 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-02-19 17:17 ` Martin Wilck
2013-02-19 5:26 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-02-19 10:54 ` Martin Wilck
2013-05-03 5:01 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-05-03 8:21 ` Martin Wilck
2013-05-03 19:21 ` Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
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