Bug#409073: grub2 and GPT

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Tue May 1 12:16:32 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:00:25AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> It seems that grub2 supports GPT alright, but only in its EFI version.  If
> you want GPT on a PC, some changes are needed.
> 
> The attached patch mostly fixes it.  The only drawback is that partition
> number in prefix/root env variables is corrupted for some reason and you
> need to fix it manualy on every boot (set root=foo, etc).

Ah yes, there's another drawback:  it fucks up your partition table :-)

Be patient.  I'm working on that..

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