Bug#407338: gpt support for grub

[Michael Renner]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-20
Severity: wishlist

Please consider adding GPT support for GRUB [1] although it's already in
feature freeze. GRUB is currently the only bootloader which is able to
boot from GPT partitions which are mandatory when partitioning
blockdevices which exceed 2TB in size (and become more and more common
due to the latest developments in the storage sector).

I tested the aforementioned patch and it worked fine for me (after
ignoring whitespace and fixing the linewraps). A corrected version can
be found at http://amd.co.at/data/grub-gpt.patch .

GRUB2 might be an option in the future but unfortunately it's not usable [2] in it's current state.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2006-07/msg00037.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-01/msg00030.html

best regards,
Michael Renner

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

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