Re: [PATCH] Fix chainloding + Chainloading into logical partitions

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori<address@hidden> wrote:
> As already mentioned in this mailing list
> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00192.html)n I
> can't chainload Syslinux from Grub2 on a disk with a pc partition table
> (Syslinux is installed on a primary partition).
> I just get "Boot error" (from Syslinux i guess).
> However it does work from Grub Legacy.
> I also couldn't chainload Syslinux from Grub2 if the disk used a GPT
> partition table.
> The patch provided in the previous thread and adapted to current Debian
> unstable Grub2 package (1.96+20090721-3, patch attached) fixes the problem.
> Have any decision been made to include that patch in a future release (or a
> "better" one just providing enough information for Syslinux to boot as it
> was mentioned that this one copies more than necessary) ?
>
There is strictly no need to do this restructuration. The real bug is
different fix would be setting dev->disk->partition to 0 before
calling grub_disk_read and restoring it afterwards. This part of code
is changed anyway with my nested partition patch and I was hoping it
could be applied quickly. Could you test nestpart branch of my
repository?
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre Flori
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