On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200, phcoder wrote: > Hello. I was looking at the grub code and seen that if a disk has > multiple partition tables (e.g. macintel with bootcamp) then only first > one will be detected. In some cases it can lead to unreachable > partitions if for some reason partition is present only in one table. > Does anyone has an idea how theese cases may be treated compactly and > efficiently?
Strictly speaking, GPT+MSDOS hybrid tables are a violation of the GPT specification. It's not clear what would be the "correct" way of handling them. Since we're not a legacy program, I suppose the sane thing to do would be to abort MSDOS probing if a protective DOS partition (0xee) is found, and then only GPT will be used. Isn't this what GRUB does already? I thought it would be... -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
