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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:06:32
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41Snu1-G_=DF4qR0fk=T2yZ5E4zL2=5i+TSJR47cbY0jw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
3 >> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
4 >> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
5 >> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. That is similar to
6 >> FreeBSD's bootloader.
7 >
8 > Now, that should make for a fun migration!  Fortunately I do have a
9 > separate boot already, and I guess I can be daring and overwrite it in
10 > place and trust in grub2 to still find the kernel elsewhere.
11 >
12 > Those without a separate boot and without any free space are likely to
13 > find this to be painful.  Resizing partitions isn't exactly
14 > risk-free...
15 >
16 > Rich
17 >
18
19 I think Richard is incorrect here; grub2 can live on any filesystem,
20 so long as some combination of modules can access it.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>