On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/18/2012 12:46 PM, mike cloaked wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> I am planning a test install using the new arch-install-scripts via the >>> latest netinstall images from releng (from today's date). >>> >>> I know that for a system where I blow away all previous disc partitions and >>> partition from scratch I can create a 2MiB partition (using MBR and NOT GPT >>> partitioning) before the first formatted partition on the HD and install >>> grub2 during the base install. However can someone please tell me >>> explicitly if, for a system with only BIOS (no UEFI at all), and no GPT >>> partitioning but just plain old MBR partitioning - is the recommended 2MiB >>> post-MBR gap still a "requirement" for that specific situation for grub2 to >>> work? > > I use grub2 with msdos partitioning and no gap. > Thank you - though I am ignorant about whether at some point in the future the gap would be a "requirement" and whether the core.img may get large and cause an issue - certainly I use another distro on a server where grub2 is the bootloader with BIOS and standard partitioning and it also has no problems at all though in that case the core.img file is in a directory in /boot - but having seen dire warnings on various web pages I wanted someone who knew to confirm that grub2 in the old style BIOS and disk partitioning would continue to work into the future or not! -- mike c
