On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 14:38 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:39:56AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Please realize that the hfs fix is just a part of what needs to be done. > > > > For GRUB to be a drop-in replacement for yaboot (at least on Fedora), > > the installation script should be able to understand the layout where > > only few files are located on the true boot partition (in hfs format, > > perhaps not mounted), whereas most GRUB files and kernels are placed on > > a "second boot partition" in ext2 format mounted under /boot. > > I agree that grub-install and the other tools should know more about > /boot/grub being a separate partition in order to be able to mount it for a > correct install. Not so much on the two boostrap partitions, my tiny one > as generated by the Debian installer ages ago is good enough to hold a > copy of GRUB and a "just in case" copy of yaboot. But of course, this could > be an optional setup. > > /dev/hda2 974K 697K 278K 72% /boot/grub
It's OK for GRUB, but it's not big enough to hold kernels. Also, distributions may be reluctant to break the assumption that the kernels are located on a filesystem with POSIX access control and three kinds of timestamps. > See Michel Dänzer's post I just forwarded. Besides what you pointed out, > it seems there are other serious problems with the new HFS patch which > make it fail as before. My bad. Fixed now. Thank you! -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
