Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:19:22PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> This sounds like a bug in grub.  It should not be looking for an EBR
> inside a non extended partition, so if there happens to be some old data
> there that looks like one, it should not matter.

Well it would appear that it does currently scan for partitions inside
all partition types.  After all msdos partitions tables may only exist
in MBR and extended partitions, but BSD and Solaris slices can exist in
other partitions, and those should be detected.  Perhaps the msdos
partition scanner needs to be tought the special rules that apply to
msdos partition tables as an exception.

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Len Sorensen