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Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: Re: [patch] grub incorrectly identifies ext3 as fat
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:39:16 -0400

Hi Felix,

2009/10/31 Felix Zielcke <address@hidden>:
> That only happens if you use grub-install with --modules or you directly
> create it with grub-mkimage.
> By default there's just one module and there only needs to be one.
> The one to access /boot/grub.
> It doestn't make sense to include more then one fs module into core.img
> With grub.efi the situation seems to be different though. But IMO it's a
> bug there.

What if you have a dual boot setup, with say ntfs and ext3?

When you go to boot from a kernel from ext3, it might break if the
user loaded the ntfs module.

Isn't it easy to just fix the bug?

Cheers,
Andrew




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