No worries, I remember trying it in a VM with a DOS partition table and it not booting. It could of been a dodgy ISO that I was trying to load though (I have made a few duff ISO's).
Adam -----Original Message----- From: René Rebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2008 10:51 To: Adam Stirk Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [t2] RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub Hi, just a quick comment to the grub note: Adam Stirk wrote: ... > FYI I think you might want to remove the GPT patch, as I believe you can't > install then GRUB on a non GPT disk. (I had this fix in my build system > already) > The patched looked to check for GPT if protected or none classic DOS partitions are found, and I just double checked this on a aging 1GHz Athlon with just 3 normal primary partitions, GRUB installed and booted just fine with t2/trunk:HEAD. Thanks again for pointing me to the GPT issue and to have me double check the current patchset on mainstream / old PCs. Yours, René > Regards > > Adam > > -----Original Message----- > From: René Rebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 August 2008 13:53 > To: Adam Stirk > Cc: T2 developers mailing list > Subject: Re: [t2] RE: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub > > HI Adam, > > I don't think it includes GPT support, yet. However, with mostly Intel > Macs over > here in the office it would make sense even for us to backport support > for this - > should not be too hard. > > What machines do you use there to have GPT in use? > > Tweaking all code paths of GRUB to use non 32bit indexes for disc access > will > be harder. What is your disc configuration to get 2TB storage? E.g. our main > server has 4 single 500G discs to form 2G of RAW storage thru RAID5. > > Honestly I think GRUB 2 should have been a gradual transformation instead > this never ending rewrite. That GRUB 1 is sort of unmaintained does not > exactly > help it's popularity either (e.g. most distributions already use > isolinux for CD > booting, while we already spent multiple days quirking various USB CD > related > BIOS bugs, and recently imported the grub-suns as well as the grub-os > patchset > to fix even more, and get PXE UNDI BIOS stack network boot support, ... > > I started a grub2 package already on my latop, but given it recently had no > CD boot code and all the rest is also incomplete and in flux it only makes > sense to have it optional in addition to other, stable boot loaders. > Thus I did > not yet finished a grub2 package as it requires quite some tweaks to install > files named grub2 to make it possible to install it along grub(1). > > Comments (and patches) welcome, > > René > > Adam Stirk wrote: > >> Rene, >> >> Does this patch set include GPT support? Also are there any plans to add >> GRUB 2? I know this has GPT support and support for partitions bigger than >> 2Tb. (my system has 4Tb of disk space and was a royal pain in the arse to >> get working) >> >> Thanks >> >> Adam >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 20 August 2008 12:51 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [t2-svn] rev 30132 - trunk/package/x86/grub >> >> >> Author: rene >> Date: 2008-08-20 13:51:25 +0200 (Wed, 20 Aug 2008) >> New Revision: 30132 >> Log: >> * updated grub to the "accumulated /fixes/" patchset 0.97-os.7 >> (which also includes PXE UNDI network stack support as the new >> grub-sunos package, as well as other accumulated fixes) >> >> Review the ChangeSet with: >> svn diff -c 30132 https://svn.exactcode.de/t2 >> >> Added: >> trunk/package/x86/grub/default-menu.patch >> trunk/package/x86/grub/netboot-fixes.patch >> Removed: >> trunk/package/x86/grub/2g_limit.patch >> trunk/package/x86/grub/mactel.patch >> Modified: >> trunk/package/x86/grub/gcc-4.0.patch >> 36 +++++++----------------- >> trunk/package/x86/grub/grub-0.95-graphics.patch >> 13 ++++---- >> trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.conf >> 12 ++++++++ >> trunk/package/x86/grub/grub.desc >> 6 +++- >> trunk/package/x86/grub/no-menu-border.patch >> 19 ++++++++++++ >> -- René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
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