On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Just ignore the troll. There are a few people on this list who seem to take offense at the fact that people ask questions about Arch Linux...on a list for asking questions about Arch Linux. It's one thing if you had made no effort to find an answer on your own, which is admittedly irritating, but that doesn't seem to be the case for you. So just don't pay him any mind.
Actually the nearest I got to an answer is https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24103 which implies that for more complex setups there could be a problem without the post-MBR gap in grub2. So my best bet would indeed be to ensure that all my machines do have the recommended first partition start point even for legacy type partitioning (despite the potential pain in so doing) before attempting to convert or install with grub2 when it moves to core (and the new netinstall isos). I can foresee some users hitting issues when grub2 becomes default. Thanks - I won't pursue this any further on this list. -- mike c