From: phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Multiple partition maps
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:27:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C56E79.9080502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908133815.GA21754@thorin>
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
>> BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
>> modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And in theese cases
>> GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough?
>
> If there's at least one protective GPT partition (0xee), I think this should
> be considered enough to accept the partmap as GPT.
>
In GPT module if first partition is not of type 0xee then it's
considered that no GPT is present. Is think that this check is
error-prone (with e.g. bootcamp) and unnecessary
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-03 18:08 Multiple partition maps phcoder
2008-09-04 19:40 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-04 21:49 ` phcoder
2008-09-05 10:08 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-04 21:54 ` phcoder
2008-09-08 13:38 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-08 18:27 ` phcoder [this message]
2008-09-08 18:31 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-09 0:08 ` phcoder
2008-09-09 0:47 ` [PATCH] " phcoder
2008-09-09 12:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-09-09 13:16 ` phcoder
2008-09-09 15:01 ` Robert Millan
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