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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/06/2014 8:10 PM, Tomasz Rybak wrote: > > Exactly. For NBDs and loopback volumes, this is necessary when using > grub 1.99, because grub tries to be smart about things and then trips > over its own feet. > To avoid that, we fool grub into thinking that the mounted volume and > it's partitions are just on a normal HDD. > > > OK, I was using Debian unstable with GRUB 2.02 so I should repeat > tests with GRUB 1.99. *nod* This is what I was talking about with you Tomasz and others - but I never figured out what it was in Grub 1.99 that was broken. If we can get a patch to grub (and I have already mentioned this to Colin Watson), then perhaps we merge that in the Grub Debian package. In the mean time, I couldn't get a good with 1.99 to install boot blocks as a workaround (using all kinds of hardlinks to trick Grub 1.99)... James - -- /Mobile:/ +61 422 166 708, /Email:/ james_AT_rcpt.to -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTiymKAAoJEK7IKHSdhcU8PJ0QAJ8xQGRK8TPvyF/V5It9gZGf KeR062BJBlmm76FOWlGNGVBVdhWsulqNnOsoMIRAP7XU5CvssizxLYlfJ+eyl5iP hjB/TmCxHkgvp+VmstJPBXQZhb+yPI8R87OiyNcY9D65rsGM2SJNNu79P8I/1JG1 vWlXVJu/RR5kKZVYEQh5QPMPkpkoAGnl4XCaGnlyMCj0ErL503P7diybJF9UojEJ f+j+6mz1EowWEFjIXuLLKnVNc6GE1FrK79J2n+NECEzwTTR2slN1EW40Mt5yCZ0m //mHOZx+VZydoD/Jg8OfoCD28K5zQ5uNdpbC6fsq3zBGWcWy7Js7Hs7Nf6yqQO+7 WcALwiAJ4nB6yjf5tXIedG2Eye73TaCWSuC/3o9O590fTO+SQMJIy+9bNR95/pYq KLGrfeDCQFSal8ffOJlsBUR/8Kt55D8nPpUlk4gAXx02Ucnp4vOk13LMt3RerAoo 2bOn8WdOyloepNvn0mNgcWvb40qfj83Kx56XgoH13HwO90so8KG8uyRE7iBMIjjN /OzGRP4uVionkR074Qu6G4pJ4eHqnbCsM5Dsqn/RxDobVWwvloRQB5dI1x6vuD7m tcFOE4SIwPjRBpqtX24VOT+aZrXkuPXMwQUWnHUZO4DFX/AJri+4KB2lvovaaEmg 2F3+0Arz9EmVX8qtXWwT =p7eY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |