On Friday 25 July 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:36:25PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > If you ask me, I think this unfortunately looks like a complex > > detection problem -- which I think is eventually going to start with a > > *successful* detection of the Apple partition (because Apple + PC > > partitions can co-exist), followed by somehow *rejecting* that based on > > not finding any Apple HFS+ partitions (avoiding scanning partition 0), > > re-detecting partmaps (avoiding the failed Apple detection), and then > > going from there. :-/ I've been thinking about that problem. No matter > > how I look at this issue, it's messy. > > It can't be so complicated; your layout is properly detected on Linux, > isn't it?
Ah. Yes I suppose that's true, and it gives me a thought -- I suspect it may be due to the Linux kernel being built on the PC architecture. I *think* all of the Apple boxes that run a PC architecture use EFI and the GPT partition scheme rather than the Apple one -- so it might be possible to simply not include Apple detection based on a decision at compile time. And that's likely to be much easier to code. > Maybe we just need to give preference to MSDOS partitions. Hmm. If we do that, will that avoid the problem if the hybrid disk is in an Apple? [I haven't tested it.] > Btw, adding grub-devel to CC. Let's try to have discussions in upstream > list.. Sounds good to me. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
