[illumos-Discuss] multiboot-fu needed

[Mike Riley]

On 09/16/10 06:43, Laurent Blume wrote:
> 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 ?

I assume he meant for the node name, which uses decimal numbers (s0 to s15).  In the menu.lst 
file it does use letters.

Mike