Re: Grub 2 functionality

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:43:19PM -0700, Scott A Tovey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two questions.
> 
> 1. Will grub2 be taking over the hard drive
> recognition from the BIOS?
> 
> I believe that the Max OS X boots without using
> the BIOS hard drive IO. This allows the OS to
> boot on any hardware regardless of whether the
> BIOS can recognize the entire drive or not.

Work is underway to make GRUB less BIOS-dependant on its disk access
routines (see disk/ata.c, recently committed).  However, you can't
completely do without it since you need to load GRUB itself somehow
and AFAIK a full ATA driver won't fit in the first sector.

If you want to get rid of BIOS completely, look at LinuxBIOS project
instead.

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Robert Millan

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