On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:43:19PM -0700, Scott A Tovey wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions. > > 1. Will grub2 be taking over the hard drive > recognition from the BIOS? > > I believe that the Max OS X boots without using > the BIOS hard drive IO. This allows the OS to > boot on any hardware regardless of whether the > BIOS can recognize the entire drive or not.
Work is underway to make GRUB less BIOS-dependant on its disk access routines (see disk/ata.c, recently committed). However, you can't completely do without it since you need to load GRUB itself somehow and AFAIK a full ATA driver won't fit in the first sector. If you want to get rid of BIOS completely, look at LinuxBIOS project instead. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
