From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:22:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131205122224.GA13669@riva.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131205121723.GN16147@riva.ucam.org>
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 12:17:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> This lets us cope with block device drivers that don't implement
> HDIO_GETGEO. Fixes Ubuntu bug #1237519.
Brandon Hansen also pointed out in this bug that hd_geometry.start is
unsigned long rather than unsigned long long, and thus is not
necessarily reliable on large disks, which is a good point I'd
overlooked, and should be further support for this approach.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-05 12:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-05 12:17 [PATCH] On Linux, read partition start offsets from sysfs if possible Colin Watson
2013-12-05 12:22 ` Colin Watson [this message]
2013-12-05 13:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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