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Re: Support for RAID in grub-setup
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Jeroen Dekkers |
Subject: |
Re: Support for RAID in grub-setup |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:16:26 +0200 |
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At Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:21:47 +0200,
Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>
> On Friday 28 July 2006 01:13, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > It would be possible to calculate how to write the image to the file
> > so it ends up being a consecutive image on the physical disk. But I
> > think it's not worth the trouble, especially given that we can always
> > embed the kernel if we keep the size below the 31k.
>
> It would depend on the user... AFAIK, some stupid Windows software wants to
> use that region for something else.
I think the number of people who use RAID and such stupid Windows
software on the same hard disk is pretty small. :-)
This is probably different for LVM. But AFAIK we are currently always
overwriting the region and booting will fail if the stupid Windows
software overwrites that region.
Jeroen Dekkers