Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:44:08AM -0400, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2009/10/30 Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> >> What about probing in the boot-loader?
> >
> > It's too late then.  grub-install needs to know which filesystem module has
> > to be included in core.img.
> 
> What if the core.img contains modules for 2 or more file systems?

This should be a last ressort.  Fortunately, we have a better solution,
which you pointed out youself: make sure the filesystem works by actually
reading the file.

Felix, did you have some code to do make_path_relative_to_its_root() in C?
Then we can re-enable the check in grub-probe, fixing this problem.

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