Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > On my GPT-partitioned MacBook, I seem to have two options for booting > with grub-pc: > > 1. Install grub to the start of an existing partition. This coexists > well with the rEFIt boot menu, but requires blocklists to load > core.img. > 2. Use a BIOS boot partition. This allows embedding core.img, but > installs to the MBR and makes rEFIt unhappy. > > On EFI system try grub-efi. > I had the idea that we could get the advantages of both: Install the > boot-image to an existing partition, but load core.img from a BIOS > boot partition. With some creative hex-editing I got this working > without much difficulty. > > Is there a technical reason why grub doesn't support this setup? If I > were to write a patch allowing this, what behaviour would be > preferred: Should 'grub-setup (hdX,Y)' automatically use a BIOS boot > partition if one exists, or should a command-line flag be required? > > It may be a good idea but the best way is to use first sector of BPB for this. But the usability is limited. For EFI systems we have grub-efi and for BIOS boot you still need a specially adapted MBR for it anyway > Dave Vasilevsky > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
