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Fixed grub to handle "special" device names used by some RAID controllers

This fix will solve the problem that "stock" grub is not able to detect
following devices: /dev/{ida,ataraid,cciss,rd}
early
Christian Wiese 17 years ago
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      x86/grub/grub-0.97-special-device-names.patch

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x86/grub/grub-0.97-special-device-names.patch

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# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
#
# Filename: package/.../grub/grub-0.97-special-device-names.patch
# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
#
# More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
#
# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
# version.
# --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
--- grub-0.97/lib/device.c.orig 2006-12-18 20:48:51.949360000 +0200
+++ grub-0.97/lib/device.c 2006-12-18 20:49:51.737096500 +0200
@@ -861,7 +861,13 @@
if (strcmp (dev + strlen(dev) - 5, "/disc") == 0)
strcpy (dev + strlen(dev) - 5, "/part");
}
- sprintf (dev + strlen(dev), "%d", ((partition >> 16) & 0xFF) + 1);
+ sprintf (dev + strlen(dev), "%s%d",
+ /* Compaq smart and others */
+ (strncmp(dev, "/dev/ida/", 9) == 0 ||
+ strncmp(dev, "/dev/ataraid/", 13) == 0 ||
+ strncmp(dev, "/dev/cciss/", 11) == 0 ||
+ strncmp(dev, "/dev/rd/", 8) == 0) ? "p" : "",
+ ((partition >> 16) & 0xFF) + 1);
/* Open the partition. */
fd = open (dev, O_RDWR);
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