On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:21:58PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Saturday 12 April 2008, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 09:47:05AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > However, with both grub 0.97-36 and grub 0.97-32 running > > > grub-probe manually to detect /dev/hde2 seems to fail > > > (identical output from both): > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > anon7# grub-probe -d /dev/hde2 -v > > > > Please try with -vv > > > > Thanks > > Okay, it's attached. Apparently grub-probe is finding an Apple partition > map on the first drive; we do have a few Apple machines here and there is a > small chance that at one time this disk was in an Apple. The only reliable > way I've found of removing Apple partitions is to use 'wipe' on them, > although I don't know if that was done on this disk. I have a duplicate of > the same make + size that I can use to back this disk up with if something > risky needs to be done to try to get rid of the Apple map if there is one. > If you know of a better or less intrusive way of removing Apple maps, I'd > like to know.
Or maybe we can make grub-probe smarter. But before we get into this, can you confirm that disabling apple support fixes your problem? Remove partmap/apple.c from grub_probe_SOURCES in common.rmk, then run ./autogen.sh to propagate your change to common.mk and rebuild. Thank you -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
