On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Richard Yao <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a >>>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it >>>> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. That is similar to >>>> FreeBSD's bootloader. >>> >>> Now, that should make for a fun migration! Fortunately I do have a >>> separate boot already, and I guess I can be daring and overwrite it in >>> place and trust in grub2 to still find the kernel elsewhere. >>> >>> Those without a separate boot and without any free space are likely to >>> find this to be painful. Resizing partitions isn't exactly >>> risk-free... >>> >>> Rich >>> >> >> I think Richard is incorrect here; grub2 can live on any filesystem, >> so long as some combination of modules can access it. >> > > Do you know what function the BIOS Boot Partion serves? It is necessary > when using GRUB2's ZFS support. I was under the impression that it > stored boot code. >
Based on a Google search I think "BIOS Boot Partition" is a GPT thing. Not relevent if you have an MBR partition table.
