On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Vidya Sakar N <Vidya.Sakar at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Shiv, > > Thanks for kick starting the discussion. > > > 1. Extended partition support in grub : Extend the existing mount > > utilities to detect bootable extended partitions and make grub entries > > in the BeleniX installation. > > To avoid duplication of effort, just want to give you a heads up > that extended partition support is being worked and is targeting > nevada integration in the next couple of builds. However boot support > from an extended partition is an independent effort which would be done > later next year as I understand.
This feature we are discussing is not the same as Extended partition support in kernel. This is the ability for the installer to scan for additional Linux (and BSD ?) partitions and create appropriate boot entries in GRUB. This feature is not dependent on extended partition support in OpenSolaris kernel. This approach depends on the ability to simply read the raw disk and figure out the partition table - this scanning is already implemented in BeleniX. What is needed in addition is to interpret Ext2, Reiser, XFS etc. filesystems from userland and detect Linux root partitions. It is possible to use the basic filesystem read code from Grub for this. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
