On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 7:00 AM, pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote: > On 2011-01-13 10:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> No. Hard disks are hard disks, BIOSes are BIOSes. If that changed, the >> World would fall apart. That's why you can get a kernel panic if you >> forgot to build your SATA controller's drivers into the kernel, but GRUB >> quite happily loaded the same kernel from the same disk. Unlike the >> operating system, it doesn't really care about the details of the >> hardware. > > If I remember correctly, grub (legacy) is not compatible with EFI or GPT...
I'm using grub-legacy with GPT, but I think Gentoo's version includes some patches. I have no idea if they are in use upstream. I guess if they were, they wouldn't be patches. :)
