On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:25:00PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > 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.
My check has nothing to do with HFS+, it's based on the header magic number (0x4552), which differs from the partition magic (0x504D) but also from the HFS+ magic (0x482B, 0x4858). Please could you test it against an apple partmap? -- 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
