Re: Make grub treat a virtual hard disk as a physical hard disk

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:12:14PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
wrote:
> This part is done and supported (loopback command) as long as the disk
> format is raw (I don't know whether VHD is raw or not).

It is not raw.  It has sparse allocation support and supports snapshots
(in seperate files) as well.  It can be raw with a header, or it can be
a sparser format.

> This part is OS-specific. In case of GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD,
> NetBSD, OpenBSD, xnu-based Systems (Darwin and MacOSX), Solaris and
> probably some other multiboot systems you can have a small initial
> ramdisk which is used as root at first and has a sole purpose of finding
> the other root and mounting it accordingly.

Yeah certainly not grub's problem.

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Len Sorensen