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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


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-08 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ 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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-02-10  0:17 Chris Murphy
2013-02-10  4:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-11 15:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-07 10:18 Martin Wilck
2013-02-07 13:27 ` Jan Kara
2013-02-07 15:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-02-07 20:53 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-02-08 10:15   ` Martin Wilck

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