Bug#475718: Bug #475718 grub gets confused by hybrid apple/pc partmap

[Marco Gerards]

Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:36:25PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> 
>>    If you ask me, I think this unfortunately looks like a complex detection 
>> problem -- which I think is eventually going to start with a *successful* 
>> detection of the Apple partition (because Apple + PC partitions can 
>> co-exist), followed by somehow *rejecting* that based on not finding any 
>> Apple HFS+ partitions (avoiding scanning partition 0), re-detecting partmaps 
>> (avoiding the failed Apple detection), and then going from there.  :-/  I've 
>> been thinking about that problem.  No matter how I look at this issue, it's 
>> messy.
>
> It can't be so complicated;  your layout is properly detected on Linux, isn't
> it?
>
> Maybe we just need to give preference to MSDOS partitions.
>
> Btw, adding grub-devel to CC.  Let's try to have discussions in upstream list..

If I only know what you were talking about here... ;-)

--
Marco