Bug#407338: grub2

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:55:34PM +0100, Michael Renner wrote:
> 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.

How hard is it to do a GPT install with the standard installer?  I haven't
tried, but I guess you could use the CD (with 'rescue' command) for your
first boot, and then install GRUB 2 from there.  Did you find any other
problems?

If the procedure is so awkward that the average admin of a 2 TiB server
can't figure it out, then maybe we should reconsider..

> >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).

Note that by "trying to fix it" I don't necessarily mean doing it all
yourself :-).  Just filing a bug report is something that helps; I think
you should have done that before discarding GRUB 2 and trying to push
GPT into GRUB Legacy.

I'm sorry that upstream was unresponsive though.  But we're all pretty
busy here, you know.. ;)

> 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.

We can keep it open if you like (we have lots of wontfix bugs currently
anyway ;).  If GRUB 2 doesn't work, then please report a bug;  and if it
turns out it isn't something we can fix, then it would be more resonable
to discuss about GPT in GRUB Legacy.

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