[illumos-Discuss] multiboot-fu needed

[Laurent Blume]

Le 09/16/2010 07:36 AM, Mike Riley a écrit :
> Very true, but those didn't exist back then. You still don't see GPT
> flash drives though, at least I have not. But as I recall (back from
> 2007 or 2008) the GPT code for SPARC and X86 was not compatible, has
> that been addressed yet?

How compatible are those GPT things anyway? I recently had to plug a ZFS 
data disk in CentOS 5.5 box (to get some SMART info): it said it had a 
corrupt GPT.

>> I also fell over live upgrade grub boot support breaks with slice
>> numbers > 9 (i.e. more than a single digit).
>
> Should be fixable though. In the menu it is just a letter (a for s0,
> etc.). Probably the code was not written by someone that knew we had 16
> slices available.

Can't it use letters too in base 16? ie, 0->f ?

Laurent