From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Av3-0004Ki-L0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:10:49 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Av2-0004KQ-1G for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:10:48 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Aux-0004Ih-9Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:10:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53466 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4Aux-0004IW-2i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:10:43 -0400 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:33005 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 1N4Auw-0001cW-KJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:10:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N4Aut-0004ki-DV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:39 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N4Auu-0003Kr-FJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:40 +0100 Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:10:40 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091031101040.GB12730@thorin> References: <57a6d2110910290758i23de79c1y2b87513f674023b@mail.gmail.com> <20091030185759.GA30150@thorin> <57a6d2110910301219w236e2472oa28e726d7876e4ae@mail.gmail.com> <20091030224639.GA32482@thorin> <57a6d2110910302344x4209dcb4mb745e30487ad7428@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <57a6d2110910302344x4209dcb4mb745e30487ad7428@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: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:10:48 -0000 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:44:08AM -0400, Andrew Clausen wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/10/30 Robert Millan : > >> 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. > > What if the core.img contains modules for 2 or more file systems? This should be a last ressort. Fortunately, we have a better solution, which you pointed out youself: make sure the filesystem works by actually reading the file. Felix, did you have some code to do make_path_relative_to_its_root() in C? Then we can re-enable the check in grub-probe, fixing this problem. -- 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."