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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:59:50
Message-Id: 4FEE168F.10108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords by Mike Gilbert
1 On 06/29/2012 03:04 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> GRUB2 does away with the conventional stage files. It also wants a
5 >>> special BIOS Boot Partition in order to function. That is where it
6 >>> stores the equivalent of the stage2 bootcode. That is similar to
7 >>> FreeBSD's bootloader.
8 >>
9 >> Now, that should make for a fun migration! Fortunately I do have a
10 >> separate boot already, and I guess I can be daring and overwrite it in
11 >> place and trust in grub2 to still find the kernel elsewhere.
12 >>
13 >> Those without a separate boot and without any free space are likely to
14 >> find this to be painful. Resizing partitions isn't exactly
15 >> risk-free...
16 >>
17 >> Rich
18 >>
19 >
20 > I think Richard is incorrect here; grub2 can live on any filesystem,
21 > so long as some combination of modules can access it.
22 >
23
24 Do you know what function the BIOS Boot Partion serves? It is necessary
25 when using GRUB2's ZFS support. I was under the impression that it
26 stored boot code.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] grub:2 keywords Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>