2010/6/10 Grégoire Sutre <gregoire.su...@gmail.com>: > 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...
Whatever you guys implement, as long as it just works, it's fine with me. I'm interested in GRUB2 because of its multiboot capability: I need to boot L4Ka::Pistachio on top of a FreeBSD/UFS2 filesystem. If it works inside DOS/bsdlabel and GPT partitions, that's ideal. Of course, if NetBSD partitions are supported too, that would be even better. Thanks for the great support so far. ;-) > Grégoire -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
