Re: [Xen-devel] PV-GRUB - Does not read partition-less disk

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bastian Blank, le Fri 12 Sep 2008 21:16:36 +0200, a écrit :
> Anyway, I found it. It is buried in the filesystem modules of grub in
> the mount hook.

Cool, I currently don't have much time to spend on these :)

> It checks for
> | ((current_drive & 0x80) || (current_slice != 0))
> |    && (current_slice != PC_SLICE_TYPE_EXT2FS)
> |    && (current_slice != PC_SLICE_TYPE_LINUX_RAID)
> |    && (! IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_BSD_WITH_FS (current_slice, FS_EXT2FS))
> |    && (! IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_BSD_WITH_FS (current_slice, FS_OTHER))
> 
> Which reads as:
> - If device is a harddisk,
> - or it is a slice with none matching type,
> then abort.
> 
> It simply refuses to find filesystems on the whole disk. If I remove the
> current_disk check it is able to find the filesystem.

Uh, so that's an upstream bug, isn't it?

Samuel

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