In <87f94c370906130524n61ef9b11l6a36600d89c05608@mail.gmail.com>, Greg Freemyer wrote:
MBR used to invoke grub stage 1.5 or 2. - No label support, so the user can be screwed every time a user adds / removes disks?
Yes, at this level all the information provided to any running system is only that provided by BIOS. Well, for PCs using BIOS; other architectures use different methods. At some point in the future PCs may switch to EFI. I believe the x86 Macs already use EFI, and I know some server systems support it.
That's not a bug, that's FUBAR. I did not realize we were allowing the government to design our boot methodologies.
Don't blame the government for the idiocy that is BIOS; blame IBM (or whoever they contracted that out to). EFI may help in the future, but it will depend your motherboard supporting it--there's no software upgrade path. Depending on your hardware, coreboot/LinuxBIOS might suit your needs better than whatever BIOS your manufacturer provided. Coreboot/LinuxBIOS is free software, so any investment (time or money) would be welcomed. This might be a software upgrade path. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/