Re: Multiple partition maps

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:08:50PM +0200, phcoder wrote:
> Hello. I was looking at the grub code and seen that if a disk has
> multiple partition tables (e.g. macintel with bootcamp) then only first
> one will be detected. In some cases it can lead to unreachable
> partitions if for some reason partition is present only in one table.
> Does anyone has an idea how theese cases may be treated compactly and
> efficiently?

Strictly speaking, GPT+MSDOS hybrid tables are a violation of the GPT
specification.  It's not clear what would be the "correct" way of handling
them.

Since we're not a legacy program, I suppose the sane thing to do would be
to abort MSDOS probing if a protective DOS partition (0xee) is found, and
then only GPT will be used.

Isn't this what GRUB does already?  I thought it would be...

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