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On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a |
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>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it |
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>> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. That is similar to |
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>> FreeBSD's bootloader. |
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> Now, that should make for a fun migration! Fortunately I do have a |
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> separate boot already, and I guess I can be daring and overwrite it in |
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> place and trust in grub2 to still find the kernel elsewhere. |
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> Those without a separate boot and without any free space are likely to |
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> find this to be painful. Resizing partitions isn't exactly |
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> risk-free... |
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> Rich |
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I think Richard is incorrect here; grub2 can live on any filesystem, |
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so long as some combination of modules can access it. |