[PATCH] do not require that device is a partition

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

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Hi!

Devices where the filesystem is in whole disk are common nowadays [1]; I
don't think it's a good idea to require that a filesystem is in a partition
in order to access it.

See attached patch.  Any comments?

[1] for example, debian provides usb images of the debian-installer with a
    fat filesystem and no partitions:
    http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz

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Robert Millan

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2007-10-05  Robert Millan  <rmh@aybabtu.com>

	* normal/misc.c (grub_normal_print_device_info): Do not require that
	device is a partition.

diff -ur grub2/normal/misc.c grub2.disk_fs/normal/misc.c
--- grub2/normal/misc.c	2007-07-22 01:32:29.000000000 +0200
+++ grub2.disk_fs/normal/misc.c	2007-10-05 11:55:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   dev = grub_device_open (name);
   if (! dev)
     grub_printf ("Filesystem cannot be accessed");
-  else if (! dev->disk || ! dev->disk->has_partitions || dev->disk->partition)
+  else
     {
       char *label;
       grub_fs_t fs;