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Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:24:08 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:02:05AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:22:11PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:00:36PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure there's much we can do about this. Using heuristics
> > > > sounds like
> > > > it will make the solution worse than the problem. I don't care much
> > > > about
> > > > Microsoft filesystems, but I'd hate to see GRUB fail on a completely
> > > > sane
> > > > ext3 inside msdos label because it happened to look like FAT in raw
> > > > disk at
> > > > the same time.
> > >
> > > The approach proposed by Collin avoids such problems since correct
> > > pc_partition_map is always detected as such.
> >
> > I haven't looked at the source code, but what he said is we can determine if
> > an MBR is valid by checking the bootable flag, and this is not always so.
>
> If the bootable flag is neither 0 nor 0x80, then neither libparted nor
> the Linux kernel will understand it as a DOS partition table. Is it
> really all that helpful for GRUB to attempt to do so?
No. Sorry, I miss-read what you said before. See my other mail.
--
Robert Millan
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- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Robert Millan, 2009/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/18
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Robert Millan, 2009/07/22
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Pavel Roskin, 2009/07/22
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/26
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Robert Millan, 2009/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/07/28
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Robert Millan, 2009/07/31
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium, Colin Watson, 2009/07/19
- Re: [PATCH] Fix when installing on pationless but partionable medium,
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