[syslinux] [PATCH] chain.c32: add support for loading GRUB stage2

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 28 09:36:37 PDT 2010


On 06/28/2010 04:57 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to also document that:
> - 0x802b is ignored by GRUB;
> - 0x8029 represents BSD disk slices (which SYSLINUX doesn't seem to care
> about);
> - 0x8028 is also ignored by GRUB?
> 

0x8029 and 0x8028 represent second- and third-level nested partition
tables in general.

0x802b is a placeholder for the drivenumber, which is passed elsewhere
but must be zero.

	-hpa

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