From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:46:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091030224639.GA32482@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57a6d2110910301219w236e2472oa28e726d7876e4ae@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:19:31PM -0400, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> >> This shouldn't have any collateral damage, because empty file systems
> >> are useless to Grub.
> >
> > Unlike the filesystem driver, grub-probe already knows we want to probe for
> > a file. Then this assumption won't be necessary.
>
> What about probing in the boot-loader?
It's too late then. grub-install needs to know which filesystem module has
to be included in core.img.
It also should verify (though currently doesn't, as noted before) that the
files it wants are indeed readable.
--
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-30 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-29 14:58 [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat Andrew Clausen
2009-10-30 18:57 ` Robert Millan
2009-10-30 19:06 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-30 19:19 ` Andrew Clausen
2009-10-30 22:46 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2009-10-31 6:44 ` Andrew Clausen
2009-10-31 10:04 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-31 15:39 ` Andrew Clausen
2009-10-31 16:06 ` Robert Millan
2009-10-31 18:43 ` Andrew Clausen
2009-10-31 18:52 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-11-11 16:28 ` Andrew Clausen
2009-10-31 19:15 ` Robert Millan
2009-11-09 23:14 ` Robert Millan
2009-11-11 17:24 ` Andrew Clausen
2009-10-31 18:02 ` rubisher
2009-10-31 18:46 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-31 10:10 ` Robert Millan
2009-10-31 10:34 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-31 11:30 ` Robert Millan
2009-10-31 11:38 ` Felix Zielcke
2009-10-31 18:31 ` Robert Millan
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