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Bug 230905 - sys-boot/grub-0.97: Chainload SYSLINUX located in logical partitions from GRUB Legacy
Summary: sys-boot/grub-0.97: Chainload SYSLINUX located in logical partitions from GRU...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
URL:
Whiteboard: done:0.97-r10
Keywords:
: 230845 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 230845
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-07-06 01:50 UTC by Fulvio Scapin
Modified: 2010-06-25 06:21 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Attachments
Logical-partition-residing bootloader chainload patch for GRUB Legacy (grub-chainloading-logical-partitions.patch,1.01 KB, patch)
2008-07-06 01:53 UTC, Fulvio Scapin 		Details | Diff
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Description Fulvio Scapin 2008-07-06 01:50:37 UTC 
GRUB Legacy cannot chainload SYSLINUX or similar bootloaders if they reside in logical partitions (msdos labels). The attached patch solves that problem. A similar path for Grub2 has been posted on grub-devel by another developer.
Comment 1 Fulvio Scapin 2008-07-06 01:53:06 UTC 
Created attachment 159669 [details, diff]
Logical-partition-residing bootloader chainload patch for GRUB Legacy

Patch to allow chainloading such as SYSLINUX of bootloaders from logical partitions with GRUB Legacy
Comment 2 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-06 06:39:54 UTC 
If base-system team decides to include the chainloading patch for grub2, this patch should also be of interest...
Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2008-07-06 06:58:05 UTC 
Again, if upstream ACK this patch, we'll apply it.
Comment 4 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-06-26 23:16:51 UTC 
fulvio: please report back if grub2 upstream took it (with a link). If so, I'll take this one for -r10.
Comment 5 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2009-07-04 18:54:16 UTC 
*** Bug 230845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2010-06-25 06:21:22 UTC 
Now committed and published as new patchset: grub-0.97-patches-1.10.tar.bz2
Ebuild sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 committed.