From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KclSJ-0002HA-Ej for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:27:19 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KclSH-0002Gc-Hq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:27:17 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KclSG-0002GB-Es for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:27:17 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39475 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KclSG-0002G6-7P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:27:16 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:19196) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KclSF-0007P9-Gs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:27:16 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id l26so1519503fgb.30 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:27:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=puZbsHBIzISfPCODCYOFlD6NgnpjvO/BAIvTcQ55jWQ=; b=pemGQcw/wUdrmbuJXyWfLJR7/KoeDlBJ024ciczOA4wAwLjz+iyv6Y97CavR7X9W/G a70RSKPCEh0iqA/PcF5c8DfUeQQB45KzgiUcD+yMLncGyEegTzpJjRHgINnXeCATqXE6 T77ioNqkQYurDgk3CT8TQ15bWJoXHizPp0Fuc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=PzsIVySFUabrgEE+NQq9lAH4TP5CAjjNujCqfGsacc/mfBi4ya+bmoRTSxC+Doi8RE gY4b8aYiqOWCzDeHbEB8zODwhyyTh05/oiCg7jyNf8j2SypxTDSDP+NJp70a9O9PkjGf VIJ7zCaHd5oxOimZvkRhcuOl1tXIzG6jS+rU4= Received: by 10.86.1.1 with SMTP id 1mr11555402fga.61.1220898431143; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.15? ( [83.77.136.137]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm4834650fga.2.2008.09.08.11.27.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:27:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48C56E79.9080502@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:27:05 +0200 From: phcoder User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <48BED2B2.1060000@gmail.com> <20080904194015.GF9133@thorin> <48C05923.3060001@gmail.com> <20080908133815.GA21754@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20080908133815.GA21754@thorin> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Multiple partition maps 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: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:27:17 -0000 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