On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:46:14AM -0000, egbert.e...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Egbert Eich <e...@suse.com> > > Devices that used to have a whole disk FAT filesystem but got then > partitioned will most likely still have a FAT or FAT32 signature > in the first sector as this sector does not get overwritten by > a partitioning tool (otherwise the tool would risk to kill the mbr). > > The current partition search algorithm will erronously detects such > a device as a raw FAT device. > > Instead of looking for the FAT or FAT32 signatures immediately we > use the same algorithm as used by the Linux kernel and first check > for a valid boot indicator flag on each of the 4 partitions. > If the value of this flag is invalid for the first entry we then > do the raw partition check. > If the flag for any higher partition is wrong we assume the device > is neiter a MBR nor PBR device. > > Signed-off-by: Egbert Eich <e...@suse.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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