Re: a patch for working with HDD images and for newer Intel cards

[Pádraig Brady]

Sergey Babkin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to create the images of hard disks with GRUB and
> found that on Linux it wants to write to the partition as a separate 
> file. Which is not neccessary and just plain harmful in case if
> I'm installing GRUB on a disk image. So I've made the attached a small
> patch grub-0.91-hddimage.patch. The patch is made against a 
> Caldera-patched version of 0.91 but it applies fine to 0.93 too.
But what if the user has the partition(s) in the disk image (file) 
mounted seperately?
I was wondering the same thing (you might have seen my post to the list
today (I only got yours now :-()), and assumed because of the linux bug that
you would have to determine whether any partitions were mounted in the 
file/disk
you're working on, to know whether to ignore this test?
In other words as far as this linux bug is concerned whether it's a file 
or "real"
disk doesn't matter?

Pádraig