On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Jean-Pierre Flori<jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > As already mentioned in this mailing list > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-07/msg00192.html)n I > can't chainload Syslinux from Grub2 on a disk with a pc partition table > (Syslinux is installed on a primary partition). > I just get "Boot error" (from Syslinux i guess). > However it does work from Grub Legacy. > I also couldn't chainload Syslinux from Grub2 if the disk used a GPT > partition table. > The patch provided in the previous thread and adapted to current Debian > unstable Grub2 package (1.96+20090721-3, patch attached) fixes the problem. > Have any decision been made to include that patch in a future release (or a > "better" one just providing enough information for Syslinux to boot as it > was mentioned that this one copies more than necessary) ? > There is strictly no need to do this restructuration. The real bug is different fix would be setting dev->disk->partition to 0 before calling grub_disk_read and restoring it afterwards. This part of code is changed anyway with my nested partition patch and I was hoping it could be applied quickly. Could you test nestpart branch of my repository? > Thanks. > > -- > Jean-Pierre Flori > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
