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Re: Multiple partition maps


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: Multiple partition maps
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:38:15 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:54:43PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> BTW GPT module checks the protective MBR. In some cases when legay OS
> modified the MBR it's no longer "protective MBR". And in theese cases
> GRUB will refuse to boot. Isn't the magic number check enough?

If there's at least one protective GPT partition (0xee), I think this should
be considered enough to accept the partmap as GPT.

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Robert Millan

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