On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:29:45PM -0400, 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.
Why? Can't you fix rEFIt instead? > 2. Use a BIOS boot partition. This allows embedding core.img, but > installs to the MBR and makes rEFIt unhappy. That will lead to trouble. The BBP is a shared resource, like MBR. If installing GRUB to a partition made use of it, it could overwrite other things, which users wouldn't appreciate. Besides, the whole notion of "installing a bootloader to a partition" is specific to DOS-style labels anyway, and used only for compatibility with Microsoft. There isn't any real benefit in trying to archieve the same thing on GPT. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
