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Re: Attempt to Move Root



Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Nicolas George a écrit :
>> Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit :

>>> And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the
>>> bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness between
>>> the MBR and the start of the first partition.

> Note that current partition tools leave a bigger gap than ~31 KB,
> typically ~1 MB to ensure partition alignment. So on a newer
> installation you would not face that problem again even with an MSDOS
> partition table.

Correct. But that space is still indefined and who knows what tries to
write data into that place.

S°

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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