Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-05 Thread Robert Millan
2010/7/3, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > Using GUID in GPT to locate the embedded zone would be good but it has > nothing to do with this standard. Robert made some work in this > direction but never finished (he wrote MBR but not some required changes > to diskboot.img) and nobody picke

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-03 Thread venkat kumar
sir, i am new to grub and other provisions supported by linux .kindly explain what is grub,boot partition,mbr code, rtl ,etc... thnkyou On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 07/01/10 15:42, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > >> After moving of partitions c

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/03/2010 01:41 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > On 07/01/10 15:42, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: >> After moving of partitions containing it's recommended to reinstall >> bootloader > > >> But I don't see the need to standartise the interface between MBR code >> and the rest. Standarti

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-03 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 07/02/2010 02:13 AM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: >>> In the UEFI Working Group (which defines GPT) and the T13 (ATA) >>> standards bodies, we defined a slightly different method: the GPT >>> partition record now includes a Legacy BIOS Bootable bit that can be >>> set for a partiti

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-02 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 07/01/10 15:42, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: After moving of partitions containing it's recommended to reinstall bootloader But I don't see the need to standartise the interface between MBR code and the rest. Standartisation is good only for interoperability between differe

RE: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-01 Thread Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
> -Original Message- > From: grub-devel-bounces+elliott=hp@gnu.org [mailto:grub-devel- > bounces+elliott=hp@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Vladimir 'f-coder/phcoder' > Serbinenko > Sent: Thursday, 01 July, 2010 2:43 PM > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Subject: R

Re: grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-07-01 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 06/29/2010 08:37 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: > I successfully ran ubuntu 10.04 (which uses grub2) on a 4 TB drive > (presented by a RAID controller) on a system with legacy BIOS. The > drive got partitioned as GPT; a BIOS boot partition was installed; > and grub stage 1 conta

grub2 and hybrid MBR booting

2010-06-29 Thread Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
I successfully ran ubuntu 10.04 (which uses grub2) on a 4 TB drive (presented by a RAID controller) on a system with legacy BIOS.  The drive got partitioned as GPT; a BIOS boot partition was installed; and grub stage 1 contains the 8-byte LBA of the BIOS boot partition hardcoded into its 440 by