From: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
To: arvidjaar@gmail.com, grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFD] Support for installing on XFS partition?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:30:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161115203005.GE16470@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <da85ac05-a404-bb23-5bdf-4fa81f78b556@gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:16:20PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> Syslinux MBR supports booting off XFS partition by adjusting PBR offset
> (see
> http://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/commit/4298786ca19e9121568ecd4cc8b79d276ccfd24a).
> Is it worth to support? This can only work if Syslinux MBR is actually
> installed, so it would give false sense success in all other cases. OTOH
> this could enable chainloading off XFS by explicitly loading PBR from
> this offset using - probably, any - bootloader.
Make sense for me. However, I was not able to find anything/doc/spec which
says that 4th sector is used for PBR in XFS. Could you point such thing?
I would like to have some more details about that.
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-15 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-13 9:16 [RFD] Support for installing on XFS partition? Andrei Borzenkov
2016-11-15 20:30 ` Daniel Kiper [this message]
2016-11-16 3:51 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-11-16 11:01 ` Daniel Kiper
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