Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:40:34AM -0700, Bogdan wrote:
> > Moving partitions in an OS installer as a prerequisite for actually
> > working properly (which is a large part of what I care about given my
> > work on Debian and Ubuntu) is far too unsafe, especially if the size of
> > the partition exceeds half the size of the disk, as it often will.
> 
> Unfortunately, it's the only solution I can think of at the present time. 
> GRUB 
> can't interpret all file systems and having a data base of all applications 
> that 
> mess with the boot track is even worse IMO.

Well, as a developer of an OS installer I can tell you that it's
certainly not workable for us.  Sorry.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden