RE: GRUB (was: Re: Is there an SGI person in this list?)

[Matt_Domsch Dell com]

> > 	In what way is GRUB superior to LILO?  Why would I want 
> to switch to GRUB?
> 
> My understanding was that GRUB already understands the new 
> partiton tables
> that IA64 (comming soon to IA32) systems will be using. Again I can be
> wrong on this.

LILO doesn't need to know anything about IA-64's new GUID Partition Tables
(GPT) because it uses only blocklists.  GRUB needs to know if it's to be
implemented on IA-32 systems and use file systems for stage2 (instead of
blocklists), but at present it doesn't know GPT.  A quick look shows that
stage2 would need some overhaul, as they use PC_SLICE_???? in a lot of
places  (builtins, all file systems, etc).  I think I've got GPT support in
GNU parted done (depending on feedback), and would be happy if someone else
wanted to add GPT support to GRUB. :-)

Thanks,
Matt

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