Fwd: Found the problem with Grub Minix FS

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I am not sure that this bug fix was included in the current
distribution of GRUB.  I have been using it for some time,
successfully, to boot from MINIX formatted partitions.

A guestion -- why doesn't grub have an "ls" command.  It would make
GRUB much easier to use when trying to locate kernel and other startup
files.  It would also help if a boot sector copy command were
available, for example, to save a copy of "bootsect.dos" or other boot
sectors.  Otherwise, I have to boot into Linux and use dd to do this. 
A GRUB floppy would be handy for this function.

I REALLY LIKE GRUB! I no longer use LILO, as GRUB is much more flexible
for multiboot testing.

Regards,

Gordon

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Subject: Found the problem with Grub Minix FS
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:00:43 -0700
From: * <address@hidden>


After a little exploring, I believe the following fix in
fsys_minix.c makes minix work:

  if (((current_drive & 0x80 || current_slice != 0))
      && !  IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_MINIX (current_slice)
      && !  IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_BSD_WITH_FS (current_slice, FS_OTHER))

In the original file, note the missing !

  if (((current_drive & 0x80 || current_slice != 0))
      &&    IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_MINIX (current_slice)
      && !  IS_PC_SLICE_TYPE_BSD_WITH_FS (current_slice, FS_OTHER))

Regards,

Gordon


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