Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:19:31PM -0400, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> >> This shouldn't have any collateral damage, because empty file systems
> >> are useless to Grub.
> >
> > Unlike the filesystem driver, grub-probe already knows we want to probe for
> > a file.  Then this assumption won't be necessary.
> 
> What about probing in the boot-loader?

It's too late then.  grub-install needs to know which filesystem module has
to be included in core.img.

It also should verify (though currently doesn't, as noted before) that the
files it wants are indeed readable.

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