On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:35:01AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > You're confusing BIOS-based boot with msdos partition labels. You can use > GPT just fine when booting from BIOS (although Intel tries to hide that > fact by embedding the GPT spec inside the EFI spec).
Btw, maybe this hints that we don't have a very appropiate name for partmap/pc.c. Initially, GRUB assumed that i386-pc always wants 'pc' partmap; later it was fixed to support BIOS-based boot on GPT. As it stands, I don't think it makes much sense to relate msdos labels with PC. In the original PC it was an OS issue after all, just like FAT, since BIOS just loaded the MBR and didn't care what the partition layout were. What would you all think about renaming to partmap/msdos.c ? -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good 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
