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. Regards, -- Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
