On 06/07/2010 10:46 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
There are two parts of this question: 1) Which partition schemes should GRUB be able to read modules and payloads from ? It's platform-indepedent
Agreed.
and 2 conditions apply: - Usage. There are OS which are able to boot from such OS and such configuration isn't considered obscure by them. - Non-confusability. The risk of false positive of this partition config which would prevent normal function is small. If at least one condition is met it's worth considering. If both conditions are met it should be supported.
Ok. Regarding confusability, I can see potential problems in the interpretation of offsets (absolute or relative?), such as for nested BSD labels (discussed in another thread). Do you see other potential causes for confusion?
2) Support for embedding. Embedding is a potentially dangerous operation so we have to be cautious. Using a dedicated embedding partition if it can be unambiguously identified as such is a sane solution.
Sure. As discussed on irc, this would require in-depth changes to grub-setup, and it's worth another thread... Grégoire _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
