Re: Should LDM check be less aggressive?

[Andrey Borzenkov]

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В Tue, 28 May 2013 10:34:39 -0400
Phillip Susi <address@hidden> пишет:

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> Did this ever get applied?
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Yes

> On 1/21/2013 1:50 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:58:26 +0100 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
> > Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:
> > 
> >> On 21.11.2012 03:58, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> >> 
> >>> +    if (p->msdostype == GRUB_PC_PARTITION_TYPE_SFS)
> >> 
> >> SFS is confusing as the partition in question isn't SFS, it just
> >> happens that LDM and SFS ids collide. Also another problem is
> >> that of booting in case of corrupted msdos table if LDM is intact
> >> but given that the kernels won't be able to recognize such a case
> >> anyway it's a minor one. Could you update the patch not to 
> >> mention SFS?
> >> 
> > 
> > Done. Also updated for new hook API.
> > 
> > 
> > From: Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> Subject: [PATCH] check
> > for LDM partition before checking LDM label
> > 
> > There are several reports of leftover LDM label at the end of disk 
> > blocking installation of grub. Check for existence of LDM
> > partition before checking for LDM label validity. This is the same
> > check as done by Linux kernel.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden>
> > 
> > --- ChangeLog                      |    7 +++++++ Makefile.util.def
> > |    2 +- grub-core/disk/ldm.c           |   42
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 
> > include/grub/msdos_partition.h |    1 + 4 files changed, 49
> > insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 32b891a..dccdcc1 100644 
> > --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2013-01-21
> > Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> + +       * Makefile.util.def: add
> > partmap/msdos.c to common library + *
> > include/grub/msdos_partition.h: add GRUB_PC_PARTITION_TYPE_LDM +    *
> > grub-core/disk/ldm.c: check for existence of +
> > GRUB_PC_PARTITION_TYPE_LDM
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