From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grub_machine_get_bootlocation and partitions
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 09:37:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56628618.8030906@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEaD8JPAeGpti=pbaeX+8pbGyA6vmZ43j=gN9z7jEqryagGa7A@mail.gmail.com>
01.12.2015 20:45, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko пишет:
> Do you have a failure scenario? hd0,1 is not recommended but it's still
> valid and so should still work
Yes, I misunderstood what I have seen. Sorry.
> Le 1 déc. 2015 5:19 PM, "Andrei Borzenkov" <arvidjaar@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> If partition information is actually present, it results in bogus and
>> invalid device name like
>>
>> hd0,1
>>
>> This device cannot be opened as it requires partmap name.
>>
>> One obvious case when partition *is* passed to GRUB is multiboot. I
>> suppose nobody ever noticed it because standard grub-install generates
>> fixed partition part.
>>
>> We probably can fallback to probing partmap on current level in this
>> case, except it means more code again. But current situation is rather
>> useless as is.
>>
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2015-12-01 16:18 grub_machine_get_bootlocation and partitions Andrei Borzenkov
2015-12-01 17:45 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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