From: Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grub not working with BSD partition tables
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:21:44 -0700 (PDT)
> I like to create GNU/Linux systems that use a FreeBSD partition table type.
> Could we have support for that added in? I find it very nice to be able to
> use the disklabel program to divide up a disk.
That should be possible, but GRUB is not concerned with that.
> I hope grub never loses that bsd bootloader syntax, and in fact, could we
> make it just like it, so instead of hda, we would say wd0? As long as we
> are getting users to expect a bsd-like syntax, we might as well follow
> principle of least surprise and go all the way.
I can't understand what you want to mean. GRUB is not dependent on
any device name syntax, because GRUB has its own syntax to specify
drives and partitions.
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