On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you >>> provide a user case for someone using block lists and another case when >>> they're not in use? >> >> I've explained twice (IIRC; I'm replying quite late to this thread >> because I've been busy...) and I'm not sure that I'm going to do a >> better job a third time but I'll try. > > Yes, sorry, but what you call "block lists" is what I've been using since > many years with no problem. That's why I find strange this is being > "demonized" :-? I'm demonizing them but the grub developers certainly do given the message that you get when you install grub to a PBR/VBR. >> The block lists are used when grub's installed in a PBR because there's >> no space for a stage 1.5/core.img (which can read some filesystems) so >> the next step in the boot process has to be encoded and found using the >> blocks that it occupies on the disk. > > Then I have to conclude that block lists are only used when the booloader > is installed in the first sector of a disk partition, right? Yes, AFAIK; although there might be way to install grub to an MBR and use block lists. >>>> When multi-booting Linux and Windows, installing grub in the MBR *can* >>>> be hazardous to your health and that of your box... >>> >>> Yes, the problem arises when windows is being reinstalled afterwards, >>> users will then need to reinstall GRUB all over again. >> >> More than that. Some Windows licensing and anti-virus/malware software >> installs stuff into the post-MBR gap so grub, on an msdos-labeled disk >> has to fight for space there... > > Yet another reason for leaving untouched the MBR when using those tools. Very true, but I think that the grub developers have found a way around that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swotjemtvscfbr6cz8ccza4j97cmf7q1mmqmd5bn4h...@mail.gmail.com