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

Paul Bolle pebolle at tiscali.nl
Tue Jun 29 02:51:17 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:07 -0400, Shao Miller wrote:
> Paul Bolle wrote:
> > 1) Isn't it better to set [0x209] to 0xff here (ie, "no BSD disk slices
> > are used")?
> 
> I believe this is found in the GRUB binary; no need to overwrite it with 
> what it's already got.  Might this not be the case for some reason you 
> can think of?

I checked some stage2 files as shipped by Fedora and that location seems
indeed already set to 0xff. But since it is not guaranteed to be set to
0xff (and chain.c32 doesn't handle that second partition level at all)
it's safer to set it to 0xff, isn't it? 

But this will probably be just an (unimportant) corner case.


Paul




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