Subject: Re: x86 boot/root wedge identification
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/20/2004 16:22:31
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:01:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> While this means passing in a lot more data to the kernel, it means you=
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> can match disklabel information and GPT GUIDs without having to=20
> actually parse that info in machine-dependent code.
If size is a concern, perhaps you could pass a hash of the sector to
match against, before handing that sector on to label-reading code?
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Dan.
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