[Replying with Outlook, please forgive the atrocious formatting] Isaac Dupree wrote: > > I accidentally have an out-of-order partition table > and I was surprised > that such a thing is possible (vs. that everything > gets automatically > numbered in order). Nevertheless, it is a useful > feature, though not > obvious how to control with 'gparted' and the like. > "extended > partitions" probably add a bit of complication too.
Yes, I used fdisk(8) to get the effect, but with most "user-friendly" partitioning tools I'd have been SOL. I'm thinking about the implications for something like the Ubuntu installer/partitioner, which has to be dead simple for the user, and yet producing an out-of-order table would be a helpful measure of interoperability with Windows systems. > if grub-install, which doesn't have code space > limitations, could > possibly check for it, it would be a great help. But > is it possible for > a running system to check the BIOS like that? (or > possible for grub to > check somehow on a non-running system in a safe > testing sort of manner?) Consider, too, that GRUB may be installed on a system where the BIOS is good, and then booted on a system where it borks. USB drives have a natural mobility to them, of course, and even IDE/SATA drives may be transplanted from one computer to another. --Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
