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From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Protection of boot sector and embedded area
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:12:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ABE91BB.8050805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad2655cb0909261457p1830bd0cq45b0ce1a62dd5730@mail.gmail.com>

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I think it would be good if one could put grub into the beginning of a
> partition.
> The problem with this is that I don't know if there is room to put
> grub at the beginning of an ext3
>  or lvm partition. If it were possible, it would make grub much more
> compatible with Dual boot systems.
>   
Some partitions like reiserfs (64K reserved for bootloader) and lvm
("unusable space") have some space where core.img can be hold but such
cases are a minority.
XFS doesn't even have space for boot sector.
ext* has only 2 sectors available. Too few.
FAT32 has ~16K reserved. Too few.
ZFS has 8K reserved. Too few.

>
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>   




      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-26 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-26  8:28 Protection of boot sector and embedded area James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-26  8:57 ` Colin Watson
2009-09-26  9:07   ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-26  9:13     ` Colin Watson
2009-09-26 10:40       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-26 10:47         ` Felix Zielcke
2009-09-26 14:49     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-26 21:57       ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-26 22:07         ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-26 22:47           ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-26 23:01             ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-27 11:37             ` Michal Suchanek
2009-09-27 12:21               ` James Courtier-Dutton
2009-09-27 12:41                 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-09-26 22:12         ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko [this message]

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