Re: Request for review of attached patches for hybrid GPT/MBR

2011-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
> methods you mention and also work as a CD .iso. While that would indeed be really useful, I think the work for that needs to be done in xorriso (in addition to the work Matthew Garrett has been doing in isohybrid). -- Colin Watson [cj

Re: Bug#632048: segfault in grub-setup

2011-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
st_dev->disk->dev->id == > GRUB_DISK_DEVICE_BIOSDISK_ID && !grub_util_biosdisk_is_floppy > (dest_dev->disk)) >/* Replace the jmp (2 bytes) with double nop's. */ >*boot_drive_check = 0x9090; >} Thanks, -- Colin Watson

Re: does the chainloader command ever return?

2011-12-18 Thread Colin Watson
the machine. There isn't a whole lot we can do about this; chainloading is a rather primitive boot protocol with very little in the way of available error checking. I suppose it might be possible to come up with some other way to check the integrity of the Windows XP boot se

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