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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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