On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@0x01b.net> wrote:
On 07/18/2012 12:46 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> 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