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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Marco Sinhoreli <msinhore@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PV-GRUB - Does not read partition-less disk
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:38:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080912193836.GK4171@implementation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080912191636.GA18956@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>

Bastian Blank, le Fri 12 Sep 2008 21:16:36 +0200, a écrit :
> Anyway, I found it. It is buried in the filesystem modules of grub in
> the mount hook.

Cool, I currently don't have much time to spend on these :)

> It checks for
> | ((current_drive & 0x80) || (current_slice != 0))
> |    && (current_slice != PC_SLICE_TYPE_EXT2FS)
> |    && (current_slice != PC_SLICE_TYPE_LINUX_RAID)
> |    && (! IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_BSD_WITH_FS (current_slice, FS_EXT2FS))
> |    && (! IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_BSD_WITH_FS (current_slice, FS_OTHER))
> 
> Which reads as:
> - If device is a harddisk,
> - or it is a slice with none matching type,
> then abort.
> 
> It simply refuses to find filesystems on the whole disk. If I remove the
> current_disk check it is able to find the filesystem.

Uh, so that's an upstream bug, isn't it?

Samuel

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-11 23:10 PV-GRUB - Does not read partition-less disk Bastian Blank
2008-09-12  1:38 ` Marco Sinhoreli
2008-09-12  6:24   ` Bastian Blank
2008-09-12 12:01     ` Marco Sinhoreli
2008-09-12 13:06       ` Bastian Blank
2008-09-12 14:29         ` Marco Sinhoreli
2008-09-12 14:42           ` Bastian Blank
2008-09-12 15:01             ` Marco Sinhoreli
2008-09-12 19:16               ` Bastian Blank
2008-09-12 19:38                 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2008-09-12 19:54                   ` Bastian Blank
2008-09-12 19:59                     ` Samuel Thibault
2008-09-17 20:08                   ` Bastian Blank
2008-09-17 20:15                     ` Samuel Thibault

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