On Monday 28 July 2008, Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Montag, den 28.07.2008, 14:41 -0400 schrieb Chris Knadle: > > However on the last test I did make an error and left out the -d > > option to grub-probe, and that's required for the grub-probe to succeed, > > so unfortunately the output I posted is erroneous. > > A new one is attached which has Robert's patch applied -- it does > > succeed in finding the partition, but unfortunately we can't fix the > > problem this way because I believe it makes Apple partition detection > > *always* fail. > > Urgs, yeah didn't see that. > You have to use -d if you give a device. > Why do you think that with this it will always fail?
Because the test that the patch does is to check for an HFS+ filesystem magic number against the first 2 bytes on the drive, which contains a jump vector for the Grub stage1 binary. i.e. in order for the test to pass, Grub has to be unbootable. > Maybe you can try this out? :) I normally don't run Apple machines. I have an old 400MHz iMac G3 (the type that is housed inside of a monitor) available to me, but replacing the hard disk requires a somewhat messy disassembly effort. I also have an external Firewire enclosure I could theoretically try this with, but I don't know how I'd get the G3 to attempt to boot on it. I'd much rather be looking at C code than spending the next two days futzing with an old Apple box. :-/ -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
