On 9/28/2010 3:05 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Using an embedding partition on msdos as an optional alternative (not as > replacement) to MBR gap is a clear possibility, good idea and was > proposed before but details are very unclear. Like: > - How to create such partition
The same way you create any other partition? > - How does grub find it and ensures that it's an embedding partition? > Any false positive will result in data loss. Obviously no msdos type is > completely unused by now so it's not a way. There seem to be quite a few left that are at least unknown to linux fdisk. If you really want to make sure, then you can require a grub signature in the starting sector of the partition. Also this step would usually be done by the installer, which would know that the partition is a grub partition since it just created it. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
