Bug#488111: support for installing GRUB without blocklists on GPT

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:53:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> 
> A few naming suggestions that IMO make the scripts better readable:
> - s/toggle_bios/toggle_biosgrub/ (affects script directory name too)
> - s/biosable/biosgrub/
> - s/unbiosable/nobiosgrub/
> - s/valid_bios/valid_biosgrub/
> 
> Should the description "BIOS boot area:" not also mention grub in some 
> way? Something like "Reserve BIOS boot area for GRUB:" (although that may 
> already be a bit long for this dialog)?

I don't think it's essential to mention GRUB; in theory, other bootloaders
could want to replace GRUB in this partition whenever they're installed in
MBR.

(Yes, I think "bios_grub" flag name is an unfortunate choice of words, but
HPA insisted in using it, and honestly I didn't mind that much)

So we can just go by your preference.

> From your initial mail it looks like:
> - this will only work with grub-pc
> - no additional changes are needed in grub-pc
> - as grub-installer already automatically selects grub-pc for gpt, I guess
>   no additional changes are needed in grub-installer
> 
> Is all that correct?

Yes.

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