Re: Multiple partition maps

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:27:05PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> In GPT module if first partition is not of type 0xee then it's
> considered that no GPT is present. Is think that this check is
> error-prone (with e.g. bootcamp) and unnecessary

Agreed.  Can you fix this?

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