From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1OyWdo-0006zG-5D for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:14:12 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48421 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyWdl-0006zA-Ar for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:14:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyWdk-0006uB-9H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:14:09 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:63591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyWdk-0006u5-4l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:14:08 -0400 Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so1066388bwz.0 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:14:07 -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; bh=2bANiqhsTPIUo7RFxeOgXJTJMlOj93tIw+kGjogIjMs=; b=LIJKoGWSy7UY67FInUTCVqN0O3TOm9O/Bcwk94MkVDAKyM89E+RIVG2laspzH2+Wu7 iMrO160ozqg/bY0o+v4gpnwQJtnM+gv3M7brOwKnTIURRWnnORkHyIn+Vg9yWeieFE96 IZQ1yCyqhX3wGagjIGeVqRobHAeafHuVCsrps= 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; b=IE64oBEQncYsFip9dwy1MW4JLlRnXKEw0xvLs+ysHC4ggE5OWy/jS53M8JDFBUZ7Ct Vkdf8ZPxKzKDbtrmC0u/9ZMxvW6j4OkV5YlxqZiB/jK7Gmx5dAY8piWZOW1qZUrnrVNL Sa6DDsK85udYuW5ya/e3nbVaNfgT1i5vFvWws= Received: by 10.204.118.65 with SMTP id u1mr386951bkq.169.1285190047004; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs41.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 11sm9006816bkj.11.2010.09.22.14.14.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C9A718E.5060208@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:13:50 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100805 Icedove/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <1285054276.10425.39.camel@hp.my.own.domain> <20100921145445.GQ8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4C9A2C8A.5070904@cfl.rr.com> <20100922164428.GW8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4C9A3821.1060306@gmail.com> <20100922174422.GX8579@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4C9A4457.4040800@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig39653F667B78998BD9874F03" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed! 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: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:14:11 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig39653F667B78998BD9874F03 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/22/2010 10:57 PM, Brendan Trotter wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/9/23 Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko : > =20 >> On 09/22/2010 07:44 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> =20 >>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:08:49PM +0200, Gr=C3=A9goire Sutre wrote: >>> =20 >>>> On 09/22/2010 18:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >>>> >>>> =20 >>>>> After all msdos partitions tables may only exist in MBR and extende= d >>>>> partitions >>>>> >>>>> =20 >>>> According to which standard? >>>> >>>> =20 >>> Well, I think DOS and common practice. >>> >>> Can you think of any OS that supports any other cases? >>> >>> >>> =20 >> Minix. >> =20 > Lennart Sorensen is entirely correct. If both Minix and GRUB are > broken, then both Minix and GRUB should be fixed... > > =20 subpartition layouts are broken in many different ways, you have a whole exhibition of it, basically only FreeBSD (not NetBSD) and Solaris are sane. However since minix subdivides its partition using msdos label (the worst possible choice if you ask me) we need to cope with it. Trouble begins when you try to identify the minix partition. Previously I had the opinion "important is to find all real partitions, and who cares about ghosts", but since users seem to have phantonophobia bzr trunk was restricted to check minix subpartition only in partition having minix type. > Cheers, > > Brendan > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig39653F667B78998BD9874F03 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAkyacY4ACgkQNak7dOguQgkWGAD+MVMgwEYeKrtoFno8aeawEOKl 7xGoHCLDzKp04sLCxM4BAKxIFD1e8KGwxYnrNy2JT2FjAJ/i39uNsZxywYiq0uBD =4T2i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig39653F667B78998BD9874F03--