Re: GPT on PC/BIOS computers

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:23:54PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2007 11:17, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:21:38PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > > > I've looked into this, but I need some advice.  What's the simplest way
> > > > to obtain the corresponding grub_partition_t structure for a partition
> > > > by knowing its drive name?
> > >
> > > You can use grub_partition_iterate.  Or open the disk and use
> > > ->partition.  You can read the name of the partitioning scheme.  The
> > > is also done in grub-setup.c, in the code you altered.
> >
> > Patch attached.  Let me know if it's correct (I had my doubts about
> > hardcoding the the whole partition_map list in grub-probe.c, but then again
> > I think safety is more important).
> 
> The naming is not good. In GRUB, we call "partmap" but not "ptable".

Ok, fixed and committed.

Thanks,

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