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Re: [PATCH,HURD] Fix GNU/Hurd partition number


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: [PATCH,HURD] Fix GNU/Hurd partition number
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:28:58 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14

Robert Millan, le Mon 02 Nov 2009 14:52:02 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:33:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >     * util/hostdisk.c (grub_util_biosdisk_get_grub_dev): Subtract 1 from
> >     GNU partition number to get internal grub DOS partition number.
> 
> Are you sure this is needed?  We use the same numbering scheme as GNU/Hurd.
> (hd0,1) means first partition, so does /dev/hd0s1.

Externally, yes.
Internally, no, cf make_device_name:

if (dos_part >= 0)
    sprintf (p + strlen (p), ",%d", dos_part + 1);

so from hd0s1 I need to provide dos_part==0 in order to get (hd0,1).

Samuel




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