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Re: grub-probe fails to find PC partition due to Apple disklabel


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: grub-probe fails to find PC partition due to Apple disklabel
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:27:18 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:47:42PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Chris Knadle wrote:
> > Right now part_map_iterate() detects an Apple partition based on Sector 0
> > [which is unavoidable, since Sector 0 is not going to have an HFS+ magic
> > number]
> 
>    Sorry, I meant *partition 0*, not Sector 0...

Assuming the problem is the missing check for the other magic number in
sector 0 (of the whole disk), I just sent a patch in:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=475718#70

which supposedly fixes this problem.  Please test!

-- 
Robert Millan

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