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

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:10:20AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2008, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > Is this still a problem with grub2 1.96+20080704-2 currently in
> > testing/unstable ?
> 
> I just tried, grub2 1.96+20080704-2 -- I can't even complete installing it (I 
> selected the recommended chain-load):

Please could you try the attached patch?

  If it works (i.e. discards the apple partmap), I would also need a positive
  result (test on a pure apple layout).

  If it doesn't work, please provide a dump of the first 2 sectors of your disk
  (1024 Bytes).

-- 
Robert Millan

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