[Syslinux-patches] HDT merge

[Pierre-Alexandre Meyer]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:50:18AM +0200, Pierre-Alexandre Meyer wrote:
> The area I am still not sure about is the partitioning functions:
> 
>    com32/gpllib/disk/msdos.c
> 
> especially the code that iterates through extended partitions (I coded
> that inspired by the wikipedia article...).

FYI, there WAS a bug indeed (originally reported by gert1).

Each ebr offset is reported in the second entry of the previous ebr
(cf ptab[i].start_lba). This value is relative to the start of the
extended partition, not relative to the previous ebr.

For reference:

   http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/pam/hdt-pierre.git;a=commit;h=91ef36ea0bf1bb3a8b2079c9000cd5fe458396fe

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Pierre-Alexandre Meyer