On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:00:41PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > > >A dedicated partition is, in fact, the only way to get back the static > >63-sector area we used to have with DOS labels. > > > >Of course, you have other options; you can put your code in a filesystem > >and hardcode its offset (expect some fun with xfs), or you can assume your > >filesystem of choice reserves space at the beginning of its partition. > >GRUB > >can do both but neither of them is as good as embedding the bootstrap code > >in sectors 1 to 63 like it used to (AFAICT). > > > > Sectors 1-62 were never a good idea to use, simply because there was no > management of it. Plus, you couldn't assume they were there.
Please could you ellaborate on that? GRUB 2 currently uses them (I think GRUB Legacy as well) as long as its bootstrap code fits, and I don't recall someone reporting trouble. > >>especially with Redmond OSes seemingly going a different way. > > > >What do you mean? Last I heard, their way was not supporting GPT on BIOS > >at > >all :-) > > They do; you have to have MBR entries for your boot partitions, but then > they pick up other partitions from the GPT. > > Boot partition is obviously limited to 2 TB. Ah, the hybrid MBR-GPT. An horrible hack, if you ask me... -- 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 /.) _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
