Olaf Dabrunz wrote:
> On 29-Jul-08, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> For now it's the only solution that came to my mind that didn't require
>> anyone to change existing toolchains or behavior. As soon as you use a GPT
>> you'd get the MBR entries "for free". And the "the active partition is
>> within the first four partitions" restriction was there with MBR already,
>> so I believe it's acceptable for most users - at least until we go all
>> EFI.
>
> Also, with your approach the bootloader does not need to support GPT¹) in
> order to support multiboot (think GRUB 0.x and 1.x, which are still
> around alot).
>
> ¹) Blocklists would work though, but this is obviously not an
> alternative for GRUB.
Yes... for bootloaders that aren't partition table agnostic.
-hpa
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