Re: [Bug-grub] Re: hide/unhide

[Jason Thomas]

This explanation sound feasible to me!
Thanks.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:35:12PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> You do know that "Extended Partitions" are implemented by putting a
> partition table at the start of a normal partition, because there is a
> fixed limit of four partitions in an MS-DOS partition table?
> 
> Since this function only reads the table in the Master Boot Record, it
> can't modify "Extended" partition tables at all; they are stored
> somewhere else.
> 
> To support extended partitions, this function would need to modify the
> partition table within the partition, not the one in the MBR. That's not
> possible with this code, so far as I can see.
> 
> I should state that I am not a GRUB developer as such, though, so I may
> be failing to know something that makes this work differently from the
> way it looks.
> 
>     Daniel
> 
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