On Tuesday 05 August 2008, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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? > > > > Maybe we just need to give preference to MSDOS partitions. > > > > Btw, adding grub-devel to CC. Let's try to have discussions in upstream > > list.. > > If I only know what you were talking about here... ;-) > > -- > Marco
Who, me or Robert? ;-) If you mean me -- I was confused. Pavel made the suggestion of fixing the Grub2 issues with hybrid Apple/PC partition maps by searching for "the Apple magic" of 0x4552. I've never dealt with Apple partition maps before, and so I didn't realize that Apple machines have a special "Apple" partition on the first partition of the drive -- so I mistakenly took Pavel's words to mean looking for an Apple *filesystem* (meaning searching on partitions > 0), so in my mind 0x4552 was for an HFS or HFS+ magic number. I found some Apple documentatino that mentioned it, but if it mentioned that the 0x4552 magic was on partition 0, I missed it, so the logical train of thought led me to a bunch of erroneous conclusions. So yeah, if you don't understand what I wrote, it's because it's nonsense. Robert committed a fix for this bug and uploaded a new package, and the bug is closed. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
