From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 23:36:13 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131216233613.16872b42@opensuse.site> (raw)
There are many users using dual boot with Windows and Linux. In this
configuration installing grub in MBR unfortunately breaks at least some
updates of Windows 8 (update fails). And installing grub in partition
has all sort of known problems with blocklists.
What about allowing separate locations for boot block and core.img?
I.e. something like
grub-install --boot-block-location=/dev/sda1
--core-img-location=/dev/sda
This has all advantages of embedding core.img while allowing leaving
MBR alone. Actually we could assume default --core-img-location, meaning
that for
grub-install --boot-block-location=/dev/sda1
we assume that core.img has to be embedded in /dev/sda unless proved
otherwise :)
next reply other threads:[~2013-12-16 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-16 19:36 Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
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2013-12-19 10:28 [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location? joe fresh
2013-12-19 14:34 ` Lennart Sorensen
2014-01-16 21:04 ` Chris Murphy
2013-12-19 16:31 joe fresh
2013-12-19 18:18 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-12-19 22:54 ` Chris Murphy
2014-01-16 16:56 joe faith
2014-01-17 2:13 joe faith
2014-01-17 4:55 ` Chris Murphy
2014-01-17 12:01 joe faith
2014-01-21 18:02 ` Chris Murphy
2014-01-22 14:56 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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