On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:26PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> I don't think that this is enough since with bootcamp you can have a MBR
> without a protective entry.
Then it looks like an MSDOS partition map to me. Is this a normal use case,
or something weird?
Also, what do others (e.g. Linux) do?
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:11AM +0200, phcoder wrote:
>> Robert Millan wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
>> BTW GPT module checks the protective M
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:11AM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> >> Robert Millan wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when l
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
>> Robert Millan wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
>> Robert Millan wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> >> BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
> >> modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And in theese cases
> >> GRU
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
>> BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
>> modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And in theese cases
>> GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough?
>
> If
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
> modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And in theese cases
> GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough?
If there's at least one protecti
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:49:21PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > 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 w
BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And in theese cases
GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough?
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200, p
Robert Millan wrote:
> 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
>> partit
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 par
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