> Thanks for the answer, and good to know that you see the problem. > > But, well. Both LILO and old GRUB support this configuration and it's > a valid configuration as far as the tables themselves are concerned. > If GRUB2 cannot support this, I consider that a regression. I know > LILO a bit, but not old GRUB. Cannot GRUB2 handle this in whatever way > GRUB does/did? The way you refer to is called blocklists. Basically LILO saves a list of sectors where its files are. This approach was an error from the begining since filesystem has a complete right to move files to another sectors. At first it was manageable because filesystems tended to let files in place but there were a lot of situations where this would lead to weird effect. E.g. 1) install grub-legacy 2) rm -rf /boot/grub/stage2 3) Reboot It will boot even though stage2 was deleted because blocks still contain stage2. 4) put stage2 to /boot/grub/stage2 Now your system looks completely ok but new stage2 is probably residing in another blocks and after random amount of time it will stop booting. Now with advent of advanced filesystems blocklists may fail even if you don't do anything because new filesystem use their right to move files to other blocks This is actually situation of "pay now or pay later". We try not to break configurations used in major distributions if possible and not too much work to support them reliably. But you have used tools in a way to force them to create a bad configuration. Don't expect us to support this. Additionally your configuration has no benefit over standard one. You say that it's easy to remember to recover after failure. If you use sane configuration you'll have no failures. And first partition starting at sector number e.g. 1000 or 2000 isn't more difficult to remember than it starting at sector 1. 1000 sectors is only 500 KiB you probably won't miss them much but it gives grub2 enough space for a lot of things. > > Regards, > Rene > > > > > -- > Regards > Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > > Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git >
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