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On Thursday, August 27, 2015 4:47:30 PM James wrote: |
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> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > On 2015-08-27, Mike Gilbert <floppym <at> gentoo.org> wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Michel Catudal <mcatudal <at> |
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> comcast.net> wrote: |
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> > >> I've had serious problems in the past getting to to install on |
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> > >> a partition and gave up. Is that bug fixed? |
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> > >> It insists on installing on the MBR which is unacceptable. |
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> Hmmm. For my purposes (That is creating a PreQualifing Matrix based |
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> on the answers to some questions) it would seem that requiring installation |
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> of Grub on a partition and not the MBR would mean that only Grub-2 can be |
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used. |
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> > > It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is |
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> > > simply not supported. |
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> > So, grub2 refuses to share power and cooperate with another bootloader. |
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> > Bill Gates would be proud. |
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> Yea there does seem to a lot of that going around. The good news is |
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> there are so many qualified kernel/lowlevel/devicedriver coders |
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> around these days, it's only a matter of time before a serious |
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> fork in the bootloader/kernel world of linux occurs. It just keeps |
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> boiling and roiling, imho. ymmv. |
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> > For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a |
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> > pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. |
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> So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that |
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> grub legacy ( grub-static-0.97-r12) will work well on a 64 bit systems, |
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> (u)efi with say multiple drives (> 2T) and Raid-1 configs like btrfs-native |
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> or via lvm? |
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An EFI 64-bit kernel can only be loaded by a 64-bit EFI bootloader. With Linux |
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I think it doesn't matter because I think even with the EFI stub you get a |
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hybrid kernel that can be booted by a regular bootloader, but things like the |
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EFI framebuffer driver and efivars will not work unless you boot in EFI mode. |
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You can chainload an efi bootloader with grub1 but I think that only emulates |
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EFI, so these things may still not work. And I don't think that's officially |
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supported anymore because there's grub2 for that purpose. |
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> I'm not challenging what you are saying; I'm trying to figure out what |
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> everybody is suggestions to publish the first draft of the PreQualifying |
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> Matrix Questions and the resulting valid choices one can infer. Grub 1vs2 |
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> is a big part of that matrix. |
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> curiously, |
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> James |
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