From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LVw2h-0001bO-Bm for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:52:55 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVw2f-0001bJ-NX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:52:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVw2f-0001b7-9J for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:52:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36799 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVw2f-0001b4-5I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:52:53 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:59674) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVw2e-0006B3-P1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:52:52 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LVvxS-0006Lw-AR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:47:30 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LVw2A-0002XE-OP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:52:22 +0100 Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 23:52:22 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090207225222.GU6343@thorin> References: <1233866360.3426.31.camel@fz.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233866360.3426.31.camel@fz.local> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] try to avoid false positives on FAT filesystem X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:52:53 -0000 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 how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."