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Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers |
Date: |
Sat, 5 May 2007 01:05:55 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:40:17AM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Here's a patch to enable GPT support for PC/BIOS systems. Need for GPT is
> > increasingly common due availability of > 2 TiB hard drives.
> >
> > Please let me know if everything is correct.
> >
> > Some testing would be welcome, too (but be careful, earlier versions of my
> > patch had a "feature" that fucked up your partition table - hopefuly fixed
> > now, at least Works For Me [tm]).
>
> Have you tested it on MBR?
Good idea. I have now, and seems to work fine.
> > * conf/i386-pc.mk: Regenerate.
>
> No need to mention this.
Ok, removed.
> You don't mention in which function you do these things, just the
> files. Can you correct this? I personally would prefer if you do not
> split up the changelog entries for one file, perhaps it is not even
> allowed by the GCS.
The later adds a bit of redundancy, but as you prefer. All these are corrected.
> > -# Typically, _chain and pc are required.
> > -modules="$modules $fs_module _chain pc"
> > +# Typically, _chain, pc and gpt are required.
> > +modules="$modules $fs_module _chain pc gpt"
>
> It would be nice if we were able to use grub-probe to determine
> this... But for now this is fine, I think.
I've looked into this, but I need some advice. What's the simplest way to
obtain the corresponding grub_partition_t structure for a partition by knowing
its drive name?
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- GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Robert Millan, 2007/05/01
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Javier Rodríguez Sánchez, 2007/05/03
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Robert Millan, 2007/05/03
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Javier Rodríguez Sánchez, 2007/05/03
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Javier Rodríguez Sánchez, 2007/05/04
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Robert Millan, 2007/05/04
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Marco Gerards, 2007/05/05
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Javier Rodríguez Sánchez, 2007/05/06
Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers, Marco Gerards, 2007/05/04
- Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers,
Robert Millan <=