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grub2 package

  1. Bug #484102
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 484102

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

It is a bad idea because it has to hard code the blocks that contain /boot/grub/core.img into the boot sector. This isn't even possible on some filesystems ( btrfs ), and if the file is ever moved and the boot sector not updated to match, booting will fail horribly.