Commited On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com>wrote:
> HFS autodetect added. With changelog this time. Should already be suitable > for inclusion > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Vladimir Serbinenko > <phco...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Isaac Dupree < >> m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> wrote: >> >>> Peter Cros wrote: >>> > I don't think it is compatible with current MBR/GPT hybrid >>> ?partitioning on >>> > intel macs for grub-pc booting. >>> >>> well, it doesn't necessarily order the partitions in the same way as e.g. >>> rEFIt gptsync does, but that's because this GRUB implementation gives you >>> more >>> control! You can even pick different MBR-partition-configurations, >>> before >>> booting different OSes. >> >> Yes it was written with such possibility in mind. I don't see why grub2 >> will enforce mbr partitions to be sorted since mbr doesn't require such >> thing. If you ask grub2 to put partitions in reverse order it does it. As to >> partition in zeroth slot it spans across the space before the first MBR >> partition and is so called protective partition and is required for some >> tools including grub2 itself to recognise gpt disk as such. >> About compatibiliy: hybrid MBR is against specifications - it's a trick to >> boot legacy OS. So the only compatibility you can speak about is the ability >> to boot a legacy OS of your choice. >> >>> >>> >>> Vladimir Serbinenko wrote: >>> > Here there are 2 differences. First partition type for hfs+ isn't >>> > autodetected, I will fix this, just I thought it ws unnecessary AFAIK >>> every >>> > OS which understands HFS+ understands GPT. >>> >>> At least Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier don't understand GPT, and it actually >>> makes >>> a difference with Apple's "target disk mode"! And there may be a few >>> other >>> combinations. >>> >> Ok >> >>> >>> -Isaac >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grub-devel mailing list >>> Grub-devel@gnu.org >>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >>> >> >> > -- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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