From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N40FH-0007p1-VG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:59 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N40FG-0007ou-OL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N40FB-0007o0-54 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51316 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N40FA-0007nx-Vo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:53 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:36808 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N40FA-000423-JH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:46:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N40F4-0003CW-NX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:46:49 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N40Ex-0008SX-Nm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:46:39 +0100 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:46:39 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091030224639.GA32482@thorin> References: <57a6d2110910290758i23de79c1y2b87513f674023b@mail.gmail.com> <20091030185759.GA30150@thorin> <57a6d2110910301219w236e2472oa28e726d7876e4ae@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <57a6d2110910301219w236e2472oa28e726d7876e4ae@mail.gmail.com> 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/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat 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: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:46:58 -0000 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 still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."