On 6/30/13, Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I'd have two questions about grub2. > > 1) Are there checks in place that GRUB2 never accidentally installs to a > blockdevice, which contains a filesystem or another container like an > LVM PV, a dm-crypt LUKS container,... or a mdadm (regardless of the > metadata-version i.e. whether it is at the beginning or not)?
Yes. > > When it installs to MBR, will it always check whether the gap after the > MBR is big enough (and only install at all (i.e. also in the 1 sector) > when this is the case)? Yes. > > What happens if a BIOS Boot Partition on a GPT disk... will it check > that before writing for any known fs/container (e.g. using blkid) or > will it blindly take believe the UUID of the partition and overwrite? grub-install will clobber whatever data happens to be in the partition with a GPT UUID specifying it as a BIOS Boot Partition, with no checks on the previous contents at all. > > > 2) Does GRUB now officially support direct booting from mdadm RAID > levels 5/6/50/60? Yes. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
