On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:21 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/08/2012 01:01 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > > Hi, > > > > for now i'm still using grub 0.97 which can only understand metadata > > 0.9. Are there any advantages of the 1.2 metadata format? > > > > There are a lot of advantages to the 1.x metadata format, but 1.0 is the > easiest for bootloaders to deal with. 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 is the same > format, just with the superblock in different places. Hi Peter, wasn't it you who told be that 1.2 was best for boot loaders, as 1.0 uses block 0 which the bootloader also wants, while 1.2 uses a later block. That is why 1.2 is the default. ?? NeilBrown
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