Re: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location?

2014-01-17 Thread joe faith
- Original Message - From: Chris Murphy Sent: 01/16/14 11:55 PM To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location? I must be having a problem counting: 1. GRUB 2. unencrypted "boot" for Windows/Truecrypt 3. Truecrypt encrypted "primary" for

Re: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location?

2014-01-16 Thread joe faith
- Original Message - From: Chris Murphy Sent: 01/16/14 04:04 PM To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location? Is there a good reason why we don't have a separate partition for core.img? It doesn't seem like it's an OK idea for anything

Re: [RFC] Allow separate boot block and core.img location?

2014-01-16 Thread joe faith
May I also suggest that "--core-img-location" parameter accept a block-list in some format, in addition to the device identifier?grub-install --boot-block-location=/dev/sda --core-img-location=/dev/sda[63+1985] => embed core image in the 1985 sectors starting at LBA 63 on /dev/sda This would be