Re: [RFT] nested partition issues

[Grégoire Sutre]

On 09/04/2010 02:07 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Hello. It was reported to me about several issues with nested
> partitions. Please try attached patch and report  back any remaining
> problems

NetBSD and OpenBSD disklabels that are nested in an MSDOS partition are
now viewed as top-level partitions, i.e. we now have for instance:

(hd0,netbsd5) instead of (hd0,msdos2,bsd5)

for a partition e: in the BSD disklabel contained in (hd0,msdos2).

This makes grub-setup fail since it detects two top-level partition
maps: msdos and netbsd.

Previously, grub's view of the partitions closely matched the actual
nesting on the disk.  I personally prefer this previous view.  In
particular, if the disk had only an MBR partition table and no other
top-level partition map, then the same applied to grub's view of the
partitions.

Grégoire