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Re: GRUB2 Sparc

From:	Bart Grantham
Subject:	Re: GRUB2 Sparc
Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:14:26 -0400
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Marco Gerards wrote:

Specifically, how are you handling
different filesystem structures in the boot sector?


On the PC the bootblock (512 bytes) load the GRUB kernel.  This is a
binary image with a maximum size of 32KB (IIRC).  This is loaded from
a fixed location and no filesystem specific code is involved.

I suppose that the consequences of this are that filesystems that don'tstore the kernel contiguously (ie. compression, small-file consolidationtricks) on disk will be incompatible with GRUB2? Don't get me wrong,I think it's a reasonable tradeoff, I just want to make sure Iunderstand correctly.

BTW, how does one force a filesystem to store a file contiguously oninstallation of the GRUB kernel?

BG

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