Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:56:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> You don't need an EFI system to give GRUB enough space.  You just
> need to partition the drive so the first partition starts at 1MB
> instead of sector 63.  I think using a GPT partition scheme is quite
> preferred over the MSDOS scheme designed 30 years ago.

That's true.  Does grub-install check the partition table to see how much
room there is before placing itself after the MBR?  I haven't checked
that since I tend to use GPT these days.

> I will note that this causes problems for some systems, but I
> haven't seen it since I don't do windows.

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Len Sorensen