Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:05:21PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko 
wrote:
> Using an embedding partition on msdos as an optional alternative (not as
> replacement) to MBR gap is a clear possibility, good idea and was
> proposed before but details are very unclear. Like:
> - How to create such partition
> - How does grub find it and ensures that it's an embedding partition?
> Any false positive will result in data loss. Obviously no msdos type is
> completely unused by now so it's not a way.

There are NO unused ones?  How did GPT get a hold of one then?
There should be plenty.

Much harder is making room for yet another partition.

Of course when using grub2 on an IBM powerpc, you have no choice about
where to put grub.  It must be written directly to a PReP boot partition,
since that's the only thing the firmware will attempt to boot from.
And it too uses msdos partitions it seems.  Now of course the PReP boot
partition type could not possibly have any meaning on an x86 system.
Could borrow that one. :)

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Len Sorensen