Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a patch to enable GPT support for PC/BIOS systems. Need for GPT is > increasingly common due availability of > 2 TiB hard drives. > > Please let me know if everything is correct. > > Some testing would be welcome, too (but be careful, earlier versions of my > patch had a "feature" that fucked up your partition table - hopefuly fixed > now, at least Works For Me [tm]).
Have you tested it on MBR? > -- > Robert Millan > > My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended > for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. > > 2007-05-01 Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * conf/i386-pc.rmk (grub_setup_SOURCES): Add partmap/gpt.c. > (grub_probe_SOURCES): Likewise. > * conf/i386-pc.mk: Regenerate. No need to mention this. > * util/i386/pc/biosdisk.c (grub_util_biosdisk_get_grub_dev): Detect > GPT and initialize dos_part and bsd_part accordingly. > * util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c: Ditto for install_dos_part and > install_bsd_part. > * util/i386/pc/grub-install.in: Add gpt module to core.img. > * util/i386/pc/grub-probe.c: Activate gpt module for use during > partition identification, and deactivate it afterwards. > * util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c: Ditto. You don't mention in which function you do these things, just the files. Can you correct this? I personally would prefer if you do not split up the changelog entries for one file, perhaps it is not even allowed by the GCS. > Index: util/i386/pc/grub-install.in > =================================================================== > RCS file: /sources/grub/grub2/util/i386/pc/grub-install.in,v > retrieving revision 1.11 > diff -u -r1.11 grub-install.in > --- util/i386/pc/grub-install.in 10 Apr 2007 21:38:26 -0000 1.11 > +++ util/i386/pc/grub-install.in 1 May 2007 18:56:07 -0000 > @@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ > exit 1 > fi > > -# Typically, _chain and pc are required. > -modules="$modules $fs_module _chain pc" > +# Typically, _chain, pc and gpt are required. > +modules="$modules $fs_module _chain pc gpt" It would be nice if we were able to use grub-probe to determine this... But for now this is fine, I think. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
