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FS#21303 - [grub] (Re)Add GPT support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.craciun) - Monday, 18 October 2010, 16:11 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Thursday, 03 November 2011, 21:09 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

As I've seen GPT support for Grub was added by feature:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9864
and then removed by bug:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10639

In the later ticket a solution was found for the problem:
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Ok, i've found the reason what's wrong with the gpt patch file. The author has made syntax errors: he patched the code for some sources so that a if-construct follows directly after a while, before the opening { on this while. So the while-block was never checked.
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But the solution was not applied, but instead GPT support was removed.

Furthermore most distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo) have Grub 0.97 with GPT support and everything seems to be working.

Thus I would kindly ask for the reintroduction of GPT support. (Either as a patch embedded in the `grub` package or at least as a duplicate package `grub-gpt` in the core repository as Grub is quite an important piece of the operating system.)
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Thursday, 03 November 2011, 21:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  use grub2 or any of the alternatives. I don't plan to support features not supported by upstream. If you need it, you can just apply it yourself as this package won't get any version bumps anyway.
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Wednesday, 06 April 2011, 14:33 GMT
Anyone who wants gpt support can use grub-legacy-fedora-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47959 package.

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