On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:43:25PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > GPT has new types.
GPT has an msdos partition type for itself for use in hybrid setups. I know GPT partition tables have new types, but GPT itself has a type reserved in the old dos partition table. > in msdos there are only 255 possible types. Some are known to be used by > well known software but during 10 years of no central body for this and > everybody willing a type just taking one in self-service I think every > single type is used by either widely known or mostly unknown software. > And destroying someone's hobby OS would be a bad thing. And not having a reliable grub on actual used OSs isn't a bad thing? Someone's hobby OS could change if it was an issue. > GRUB has a design principle of being cross-platform installable. > Moreover the same disk can contain multiple grub installation. I > personally regularly move the disk between yeeloong and amd64 laptop, > well it has only one GRUB since on yeeloong my GRUB is in flash but it > could easily have one on disk too. If two architectures expect sector 0 to contain boot code, then that can't work. I certainly would not consider that a worthy design goal compared to lots of other things. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
