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Re: [PATCH] osdep/linux: convert partition start to disk sector length.


From: Mihai Moldovan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] osdep/linux: convert partition start to disk sector length.
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 20:02:02 +0200
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* On 09/06/2018 07:36 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Grub partition get start returns in 512B blocks. Can I have more details like
> which partmap you use?

Yes, but this is a low-level function that expects sector sizes in HW sector
addressing mode.


Note that the whole sector conversion magic was already done by grub_disk_read()
and friends which then calls the fd_open() function.

Encountered the issue with a GPT-partitioned, 4096-bytes-sector-size disk.



Mihai

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