[Grml] OT: does anybody have experience with grub 2

Aleksandar Lazic al-grml at none.at
Tue Oct 27 23:51:54 CET 2009


On Die 27.10.2009 23:39, Michael Prokop wrote:
>* Aleksandar Lazic <al-grml at none.at> [20091027 22:25]:
>
>> Sometimes we have ~4T storage and I want to boot from this
>
>> GPT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
>
>> The new grub should be able to handle this but I haven't seen a
>> distribution which use it ;-(
>
>Grub2 is deployed for example with new Ubuntu installations by default
>and Debian Lenny + Squeeze provide Grub2 as well. The next stable
>release of Grml (upcoming in those days) provides Grub2 as well.

Thanks for that info.

I have overread it in the release note sorry.

###
integrate grub2 for hybrid boot (special thanks to Thorsten Glaser)
###

>> Maybe there is another bootloader for linux which is able to boot
>> from such a disc?
>
>Grub 1.97 (which counts as Grub2) was released a few days ago and
>provides improved GPT support:
>
>http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/tags/release_1_97/NEWS?revision=2653&root=grub

Yes, I have seen this and that was the reason of my question ;-)

BR

Aleks



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