>>>>> Christoph Plattner writes:

 CP> Hello GRUB people, I think, the file systems on the partitions
 CP> shoud be checked via magics and other things on the partition,
 CP> not via the ID byte in the partition table.

I like this idea, personally.

 CP> For <TAB> expansions on positions like `(hd0,<TAB>' GRUB can
 CP> output the ID byte together with a `guess' by ID->name, or also
 CP> here the partition contents is checked by magics etc...

As an interim step, why not add an option to `rootnoverify' that
forces a filesystem type?

rootnoverify (hd0,1) --fstype=ext2fs

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