From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] try to avoid false positives on FAT filesystem
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207225222.GU6343@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233866360.3426.31.camel@fz.local>
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:39:20PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Here's a little patch to check if
> bpb.version_specific.fat12_or_fat16.fstype or
> bpb.version_specific.fat32.fstype has the string FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
> As can be seen on [0] and [1] Dell PCs have a small FAT partition
> containing some utilities.
> It seems like mkfs.ext2 isn't always clearing the first 512 bytes.
> Good for us is that fstype is set to .AT16 on these Dell partitions, so
> it can be easily avoided.
> Are there any objections?
There's one, you forgot to attach it ;-)
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
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still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-07 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-05 20:39 [PATCH] try to avoid false positives on FAT filesystem Felix Zielcke
2009-02-06 6:07 ` phcoder
2009-02-06 15:46 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-06 18:31 ` phcoder
2009-02-07 19:32 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-07 22:52 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-02-08 9:03 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-08 18:02 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-08 19:18 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-08 19:56 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-08 19:59 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-09 14:07 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-09 14:17 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-09 14:40 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-09 14:49 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-02-09 17:06 ` Robert Millan
2009-02-09 18:01 ` Felix Zielcke
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