From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1U3t9o-0007S2-Ih for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:58:44 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3t9j-0007CP-IN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:58:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3t9i-0007Ql-AN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:58:39 -0500 Received: from mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.52]:55776) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U3t9i-0007Qf-5t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:58:38 -0500 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.134.17]) by mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 86D1521276 for ; Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:58:36 -0500 (EST) Received: by caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:58:36 -0500 From: "Lennart Sorensen" Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:58:36 -0500 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX Message-ID: <20130208185836.GB20462@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <51138645.4050405@ts.fujitsu.com> <51153345.2020509@ts.fujitsu.com> <20130208184239.GA20462@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <51154A74.3000302@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51154A74.3000302@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 129.97.134.52 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:58:42 -0000 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