Hello GRUBers !
I have some problems with the partitioning sceme here of the
internal variables.
As far I have understood the following scheme is used.
0x00xxyyFF;
xx = is a partition number in the x86 partition scheme
yy = is the slice and can be used inside a x86 partition
At Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:45:57 +0100,
Christoph Plattner wrote:
What is the last 0xff for ?
The manual in the original GRUB distribution (i.e. 0.5) says:
-- at offset 0x8 : install_partition
This is an unsigned long representing the partition on the currently
booted disk
Hello,
thanks for the answer, but the text below, I had read, but definitly
misunderstood
things. I found that text under internals in a GRUB of some weeks ago.
And again I understand the xx and yy in the 0xaaxxyyzz notation.
I also understand the combimations of xx with yy=0xff and xx=0xff and
In my understanding, the third-level partition is not used at the
moment. So it is always set to 0xFF. I guess the notation contains
three levels, just because there is no 3-bytes integer type in C
language.
Okuji
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