http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223773
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223773#c54
Jan Engelhardt changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Severity|Critical |Enhancement
--- Comment #54 from Jan Engelhardt 2009-11-24 09:06:21 UTC ---
Well the reason why bootloaders still work like that is because the 31744 bytes
between the MBR and the 1st partition (when the chosen geometry is 255/63, it
may be less with others!) is pretty small already, so small that it could not
possibly stuff all fs drivers in there.
Of course the easiest thing would be if firmware (BIOS) would do the file
handling. OpenBoot seems to do that, though only for UFS. SILO still writes
itself to byte position 1024, going the "old way" of binding to fs blocks.
Since that is not going to go away anytime soon, it should be catered for
somehow. Have the yast installer always create a /boot partition, and perhaps
preferably with filesystems that write "rather immediately" to place, i.e.
ext2/3, and show appropriate warning dialogs in the installer if one decides to
not have a separate /boot, etc.
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