From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:22:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA24065.9030608@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA23C71.9040601@gmail.com>
On 9/28/2010 3:05 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Using an embedding partition on msdos as an optional alternative (not as
> replacement) to MBR gap is a clear possibility, good idea and was
> proposed before but details are very unclear. Like:
> - How to create such partition
The same way you create any other partition?
> - How does grub find it and ensures that it's an embedding partition?
> Any false positive will result in data loss. Obviously no msdos type is
> completely unused by now so it's not a way.
There seem to be quite a few left that are at least unknown to linux
fdisk. If you really want to make sure, then you can require a grub
signature in the starting sector of the partition. Also this step would
usually be done by the installer, which would know that the partition is
a grub partition since it just created it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-28 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 22:19 Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software Colin Watson
2010-09-24 0:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-24 14:09 ` Richard Stallman
2010-09-28 4:44 ` richardvoigt
2010-09-28 4:55 ` Bogdan
2010-09-28 8:04 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-28 9:10 ` Bogdan
2010-09-28 9:41 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-28 9:51 ` Bogdan
2010-09-28 10:25 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-28 10:40 ` Bogdan
2010-09-28 11:49 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-28 14:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-28 15:05 ` Bogdan
2010-09-28 18:18 ` Grub2 Install Image Dee Sharpe
2010-09-28 21:45 ` Dmitry Ilyin
2010-09-28 15:40 ` Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software Phillip Susi
2010-09-28 16:18 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-28 17:52 ` Phillip Susi
2010-09-28 19:05 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-28 19:15 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-28 19:43 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-28 20:07 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-28 20:58 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-28 21:15 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-28 21:34 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-28 19:22 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2010-09-28 21:46 ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-09-28 22:11 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-29 10:00 ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-09-28 19:11 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-28 14:57 ` Lennart Sorensen
2010-09-28 9:01 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-24 10:57 ` Brendan Trotter
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