Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB?

[Grégoire Sutre]

On 06/07/2010 10:46 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:

> There are two parts of this question:
> 1) Which partition schemes should GRUB be able to read modules and
> payloads from ? It's platform-indepedent

Agreed.

> and 2 conditions apply:
> - Usage. There are OS which are able to boot from such OS and such
> configuration isn't considered obscure by them.
> - Non-confusability. The risk of false positive of this partition config
> which would prevent normal function is small.
> If at least one condition is met it's worth considering. If both
> conditions are met it should be supported.

Ok.  Regarding confusability, I can see potential problems in the
interpretation of offsets (absolute or relative?), such as for nested
BSD labels (discussed in another thread).  Do you see other potential
causes for confusion?


> 2) Support for embedding.
> Embedding is a potentially dangerous operation so we have to be
> cautious. Using a dedicated embedding partition if it can be
> unambiguously identified as such is a sane solution.

Sure.  As discussed on irc, this would require in-depth changes to
grub-setup, and it's worth another thread...

Grégoire