On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:34PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote: > Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Robert, > > >Adding more patches to GRUB Legacy just makes it harder to maintain, > >since upstream won't accept them. > > I understand that, but a working bootloader which supports GPT > partition tables should be easily available on a distribution which > has a fairly large share of the linux server sector. And GRUB Legacy > is frozen anyway, so there is not much change to be expected.
How hard is it to do a GPT install with the standard installer? I haven't tried, but I guess you could use the CD (with 'rescue' command) for your first boot, and then install GRUB 2 from there. Did you find any other problems? If the procedure is so awkward that the average admin of a 2 TiB server can't figure it out, then maybe we should reconsider.. > >If GRUB 2 has a bug, why don't you try to fix that instead? > > Because I haven't got the knowledge of C, GPT or bootloaders in > general to be of any help there in a finite amount of time (which is > also not available in abundancy, unfortunately). Note that by "trying to fix it" I don't necessarily mean doing it all yourself :-). Just filing a bug report is something that helps; I think you should have done that before discarding GRUB 2 and trying to push GPT into GRUB Legacy. I'm sorry that upstream was unresponsive though. But we're all pretty busy here, you know.. ;) > I tried the debian package, yes. > > >It could also be because of the numbering scheme transition. Partitions > >now count from 1 instead of 0 (drives still count from 0). This would > >explain this error: > > [..] > > Thanks, I'll try that. If you're positively sure that this can be > worked out in GRUB2 easily feel free to close this bug and I'll reopen > a new one in GRUB2 if this should be a persisting problem. We can keep it open if you like (we have lots of wontfix bugs currently anyway ;). If GRUB 2 doesn't work, then please report a bug; and if it turns out it isn't something we can fix, then it would be more resonable to discuss about GPT in GRUB Legacy. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
