Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Fri, 8 Feb 2013 13:58:36 -0500
"Lennart Sorensen" <address@hidden> пишет:

> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 12:56:52PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > You don't need an EFI system to give GRUB enough space.  You just
> > need to partition the drive so the first partition starts at 1MB
> > instead of sector 63.  I think using a GPT partition scheme is quite
> > preferred over the MSDOS scheme designed 30 years ago.
> 
> That's true.  Does grub-install check the partition table to see how much
> room there is before placing itself after the MBR?

Yes. It even checks whether it has other known software that installs
something in post-MBR gap and can install itself in free space
(assuming it is enough).