From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OODPn-00050q-Qa for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:25:39 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54748 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OODPl-0004tI-2y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:25:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OODDF-0001pL-8B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:12:42 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:61691) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OODDF-0001pE-3i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:12:41 -0400 Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so4412910wyf.0 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:12:39 -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 :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jO7/q9i1GW5CN6zt2TZhIKHUAjDO7LzAF8P/7jJflU0=; b=cFoA8XEiOKERv9z8BA7uTMKKsgKkQ0UK61RjN3iVMb3NXwWU/iOtTULAxVWYXut96V Xn7UpEYQ+ZGOUxa5tMXS4AuIYRRx1nV8JQRwZcM4Q46GOpKiib2XZdfZZ3C7ro5XC8bX Z5Zv4tKgbcYkKZwH2hk9kuBADUvWT1UIQAltc= 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:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=EqI9tgBCO57qcKEZGM1FzV7Bk2L0dZLWG9Oh6fI1PTDfedVfrIdFhnZKe3ItMn5HrU qIE9HZSQdKPkeZ21cKy7u37RDdGTlIiS/LBaCNqa+l7R9IVDX1/xa0wh2TdG+29EBI37 oUntwUCLsAM3wQkR74XPwCmMNfxe1u6ybm1HY= Received: by 10.216.87.74 with SMTP id x52mr2671467wee.4.1276535559555; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [147.210.129.223] (laptop-147-210-129-223.labri.fr [147.210.129.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w21sm1385460weq.45.2010.06.14.10.12.38 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:12:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C166306.2030405@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:12:38 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?R3LDqWdvaXJlIFN1dHJl?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100603 Shredder/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4C0BE2C7.4020407@gmail.com> <4C0D5AAE.6070504@gmail.com> <4C13B6A8.7060102@gmail.com> <4C13C33B.4090302@gmail.com> <4C15044D.9050608@gmail.com> <20100614113702.GN21862@riva.ucam.org> <20100614132536.GO21862@riva.ucam.org> <20100614150251.GA19053@riva.ucam.org> <4C1651BF.9010306@gmail.com> <20100614164310.GQ21862@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100614164310.GQ21862@riva.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Which partitioning schemes should be supported by GRUB? 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, 14 Jun 2010 17:25:38 -0000 On 06/14/2010 18:43, Colin Watson wrote: > Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with that? I'm not familiar > with multiboot and need guidance. A possible solution would be to use the multiboot-command line. AFAIK, the boot_device field of the multiboot information structure is supposed to pass this kind of partition information, but you cannot specify the partmaps in this field, hence its interpretation is ambiguous. Grégoire p.s. This issue (with boot_device field) was discussed a bit in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-01/msg00351.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-02/msg00070.html