Bug#923253: grub-pc: Calculates wrong partition offset for EBR partitions on FreeBSD

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Tue Feb 26 18:56:52 GMT 2019


On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 02:29:16PM +0000, James Clarke wrote:
> On FreeBSD, grub uses the "start" rather than the "offset" config
> property to calculate the starting sector for partitions, which gives
> the wrong value for EBR partitions:
[...]
> This clearly shows that the "start" field is wrong and "offset" should
> be used instead. The attached patch does this and has been tested on the
> above system (consider it Signed-off-by: James Clarke
> <jrtc27 at jrtc27.com> if forwarding upstream).

Thanks.  I forwarded this upstream for you
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-02/msg00123.html and
thread) and have committed it for my next Debian upload.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]



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