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Re: Ghost LDM partitions


From: Phillip Susi
Subject: Re: Ghost LDM partitions
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:41:10 -0400
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On 10/9/2012 5:01 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Re: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1061255
> 
> It sounds like the user has some left over LDM headers on the disk
> but is no longer using LDM.  Parted does not recognize the disk as
> LDM, but grub does.  I am guessing that this is because grub is
> failing to skip the LDM check if the dos partition table does not
> show it is an LDM partition?

Got another bug report with attached dump of the start and end of the
disk that does indeed show left over LDM headers.  I think the ldm
probe code needs to check for a valid dos partition table containing
an LDM partition.


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