Sometimes a media that can be partioned isn't really partioned. E.g. usb sticks. This is a patch to handle this situation. Unfortunately such medium is often formated with a flavour of FAT which shares its signature with MBR so it may be easily misidentified as pc_partition_table. Furthermore the same signature is shared with bootsectors including grub. One possibility is to try interpret disk as known filesystems and see if we succeed. But the problem is that the check for FAT are light and may result in false positives too. The only more or less advanced check there is a check for FATXX string. But I was about to propose to eliminate this check since I encountered a FAT filesystem without this string on friend's SD card formatted with symbian which he wanted to use as liveusb. Does anyone has a better idea?
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
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