Re: [PATCH] grub-install: Improve support for partitioned loop devices.

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Sun, 26 Jan 2014 01:20:09 -0500
Mike Gilbert <address@hidden> пишет:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > В Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:41:00 -0500
> > Mike Gilbert <address@hidden> пишет:
> >
> >> * grub-core/osdep/linux/getroot.c (grub_util_part_to_disk): Detect
> >> /dev/loopX as being the parent of /dev/loopXpY.
> >
> > Those devices are normally device-mapper ones (created by kpartx) and
> > grub already detects parent by following device-mapper tree. What
> > exact problem are you trying to solve?
> 
> The kernel supports partitioned loop devices without device mapper.
> These can be set up using losetup -P, or by calling partx from
> util-linux.

Thank you, was not aware of it.