Le 06/03/2020 à 13:43, Daniel Kiper a écrit : > If we go that way then we have to care about them by the end of the > universe. And this means more and more issues like [1]. If somebody > wants to use new GRUB then he/she have to reinstall the machine or > something like that. IMO we should not care about users who do not want > upgrade their machines or whatnot. Or at least their choices cannot > impact GRUB development too much. And I think that this MBR constraint > is hindering the project too much at this point. So, as above... > > Sorry for being blunt...
Sorry to be off topic... In case of a GUID partition table, if I understand the UEFI specification[1], as the first usable LBA should be greater than or equal to 34 for a 512 bytes block size or 6 for a 4096 bytes logical block size, it could begin after a gap of 24K. Then, if we assume that the first partition begins @ 1MiB, can't GRUB use the space unused between the first usable LBA and 1MiB instead of a Bios Boot partition, in case of "legacy" booting and a GPT? I ask as then a Bios Boot partition wouldn't be necessary any more. I just hope this question is not too silly... Best regards, Didier [1]https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_A_Feb14.pdf § 5.3.1 GPT overview _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
