Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 12:29 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:16:15AM +0200, Felix Zielcke wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 22:57 +0200 schrieb Marc Haber: > > > So sfdisk is essentially incompatible to grub 2? > > > > Just make sure the first partition starts at sector 63 like any normal > > partioning tool does. > > Is this requirement documented anywhere in the vast amount of > up-to-date documentation that is available for grub 2?
No because it's not a requirement. It's just recommended. And as I already wrote any normal partitioning tool makes partitions starting at sector 63 not 1 I think sfdisk is more for the advanced people. > > > > grub-legacy should tell you too that it can't embed stage1.5 just not > > > > that visible. > > > > > > It has however never shown any unreliability in years on hundreds of > > > hosts. grub 2 says it won't function properly. > > > > With grub-legacy it's exactly the same. > > We just decided to make it more clear in grub2 that blocklists aren't > > that great. > > This is like actively scaring off people. Blocklists work just fine in > years of hundreds of hosts. You're spreading a lot of FUD. > > Actually, Blocklists even have some (small) advantages over embedding. Well it was Robert not me who made the warning. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
