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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: pygrub: if partition table is empty,
 try treating as a whole disk
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:07:32 +0000
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On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 15:39 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [PATCH] tools: pygrub: if partition table is empty,
> try treating as a whole disk"):
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 02:46:12PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > pygrub (in identify_disk_image()) detects a DOS style partition table
> > > via the presence of the 0xaa55 signature at the end of the first
> > > sector of the disk.
> ...
> > Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

applied, thanks.

> In line with my usual policy about pygrub compatibility problems, I
> intend to backport this to stable trees.

Good idea.

Ian.