From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N7dRd-0002HS-EQ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:45 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7dRb-0002Gd-EW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N7dRW-0002DD-A1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55799 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N7dRW-0002D8-1z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:38 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:51545 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 1N7dRV-0005Az-Gi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:37 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N7dRT-0001w9-Hj; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:14:35 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N7dRT-0005ZM-0x; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:14:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:14:35 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20091109231435.GA21363@thorin> References: <57a6d2110910290758i23de79c1y2b87513f674023b@mail.gmail.com> <20091030185759.GA30150@thorin> <57a6d2110910301219w236e2472oa28e726d7876e4ae@mail.gmail.com> <20091030224639.GA32482@thorin> <57a6d2110910302344x4209dcb4mb745e30487ad7428@mail.gmail.com> <1256983491.3186.2.camel@fz.local> <57a6d2110910310839p7324bb59vf9184c2c29db3dbb@mail.gmail.com> <20091031160641.GA24642@thorin> <57a6d2110910311143rde5335ascf3895b9fc3c0745@mail.gmail.com> <20091031191556.GB27249@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20091031191556.GB27249@thorin> 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) Cc: Andrew Clausen 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 GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:14:43 -0000 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:15:56PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:43:19PM -0400, Andrew Clausen wrote: > > > Or we can attempt to read a given file when we expect it's there.  For > > > example, if we're looking for /boot/grub/, we can tell "/boot/grub" to the > > > filesystem layer, so that it will require it as a precondition. > > > > I can see that that would work will for some use cases... > > Most importantly, it's a net win. If we know a file is there, there's no > harm in requiring that the filesystem driver is capable of reading it. > > It's a pity, because we already had this check, and we were forced to > disable it. Would you like to help us restore it? I can give more details. Btw, the grub-probe check has just been reenabled in our experimental branch (see http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-download.en.html). Perhaps you could test it and report if it fixes your 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."