Bug#407338: grub2

[Michael Renner]

Quoting Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com>:

Hi Robert,

> Adding more patches to GRUB Legacy just makes it harder to maintain,
> since upstream won't accept them.

I understand that, but a working bootloader which supports GPT  
partition tables should be easily available on a distribution which  
has a fairly large share of the linux server sector. And GRUB Legacy  
is frozen anyway, so there is not much change to be expected.

> If GRUB 2 has a bug, why don't you try to fix that instead?

Because I haven't got the knowledge of C, GPT or bootloaders in  
general to be of any help there in a finite amount of time (which is  
also not available in abundancy, unfortunately).

> For what I can see in your report to upstream, it could be a bug that we
> fixed in the package (I fixed a few that look like this one).  Have you
> tried with the debian package?  If so, please do file a bug report.

I tried the debian package, yes.

> It could also be because of the numbering scheme transition.  Partitions
> now count from 1 instead of 0 (drives still count from 0).  This would
> explain this error:

[..]

Thanks, I'll try that. If you're positively sure that this can be  
worked out in GRUB2 easily feel free to close this bug and I'll reopen  
a new one in GRUB2 if this should be a persisting problem.

best regards,
Michael Renner