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On 03/12/12 17:05, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> I added a check for autoexec.bat || config.sys , just to have an added check
> and avoid the worse of the false positives. My gut feeling is that either a)
> nobody cares if their DOS is not detected, or b) if
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:11:29PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > How about, if grub-mount is used, we use grub-probe to find out which
> > GRUB filesystem driver is in use, and stash that somewhere so that
> > individual tests can get at it? That ought to be just as reliable as
Colin Watson wrote:
> How about, if grub-mount is used, we use grub-probe to find out which
> GRUB filesystem driver is in use, and stash that somewhere so that
> individual tests can get at it? That ought to be just as reliable as
> the existing OS filesystem type checks.
Yes please. I've CCed t
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mmm, why not looking for io.sys at the root? In all the versions of DOS
> that I know there has to be one for the partition to be bootable.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO.SYS , some of the DOS
clones did not use io.sys, which may be why I don't remember it w
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:14:07AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> These checks don't try to avoid false positives like a /dos or /windows,
> because the code earlier checks that the mounted filesystem is one of ntfs,
> vfat, or msdos. To which list was semi-recently added fuse, and I suspect
> that migh
Joey Hess, le Mon 12 Mar 2012 11:14:07 -0400, a écrit :
> The particular OS string we see here comes from:
>
> # MS-DOS
> if [ -z "$found" ] && item_in_dir -q dos "$2" &&
> [ -d "$2"/"$(item_in_dir dos "$2")" ]; then
> long="MS-DOS 5.x/6.x/Win3.1"
> short=MS-DOS
>
> f
Michael Tokarev wrote:
> So a more naive approach at determining the filesystem type is to
> check first 512 bytes, and if MS-DOS signature is found there,
> report that it is MS-DOS. This is, apparently, what os-prober is
> currently doing.
os-prober does not look at fragile magic numbers in fil
On 12.03.2012 08:57, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Package: os-prober
> Version: 1.49
>
> os-prober finds some MSDOS partition on my laptop:
[os-prober says /dev/sda2 is MSDOS,
while parted and blkid identifies it as ext4]
I understand that, due to the fact that other utils correctly identifies
this f
Package: os-prober
Version: 1.49
os-prober finds some MSDOS partition on my laptop:
# os-prober
/dev/sda2:MS-DOS 5.x/6.x/Win3.1:MS-DOS:chain
# blkid | sort
/dev/sda1: UUID="063e2d53-7007-4112-822f-edcba00d2928" TYPE="ext4" LABEL="root"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="debian" UUID="af0b76b9-e91e-4bbd-a64c-b1a6
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