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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/partition_table/raw.pm b/perl-install/partition_table/raw.pm
index 82d2c3cd9..35a67ebd8 100644
--- a/perl-install/partition_table/raw.pm
+++ b/perl-install/partition_table/raw.pm
@@ -18,8 +18,16 @@ if_(arch() =~ /ppc/,
[ 'grub', 0, "\xEBG", 0x17d, "stage1 \0" ],
[ 'grub', 0, "\xEBH", 0x17e, "stage1 \0" ],
[ 'grub', 0, "\xEBH", 0x18a, "stage1 \0" ],
- [ 'grub', 0, "\xEBH", 0x181, "GRUB \0" ],
- [ 'grub', 0, "\xEBH", 0x176, "GRUB \0" ], #- Conectiva 10
+ sub { my ($F) = @_;
+ #- standard grub has no good magic (Mandriva's grub is patched to have "GRUB" at offset 6)
+ #- so scanning a range of possible places where grub can have its string
+ #- 0x176 found on Conectiva 10
+ my ($min, $max, $magic) = (0x176, 0x181, "GRUB \0");
+ my $tmp;
+ sysseek($F, 0, 0) && sysread($F, $tmp, $max + length($magic)) or return;
+ substr($tmp, 0, 2) eq "\xEBH" or return;
+ index($tmp, $magic, $min) >= 0 && "grub";
+ },
[ 'lilo', 0x2, "LILO" ],
[ 'lilo', 0x6, "LILO" ],
[ 'lilo', 0x6 + 0x40, "LILO" ], #- when relocated in lilo's bsect_update(), variable "space" on paragraph boundary gives 0x40
@@ -94,7 +102,9 @@ sub adjustEnd($$) {
sub compute_nb_cylinders {
my ($geom, $totalsectors) = @_;
- $geom->{cylinders} = int $totalsectors / $geom->{heads} / $geom->{sectors};
+ if ($geom->{heads} && $geom->{sectors}) {
+ $geom->{cylinders} = int $totalsectors / $geom->{heads} / $geom->{sectors};
+ }
}
sub keep_non_duplicates {
@@ -158,6 +168,7 @@ sub get_geometry {
my %geom;
if (ioctl($F, c::HDIO_GETGEO(), $g)) {
@geom{qw(heads sectors cylinders start)} = unpack "CCSL", $g;
+ log::l("HDIO_GETGEO on $dev succeeded: heads=$geom{heads} sectors=$geom{sectors} cylinders=$geom{cylinders} start=$geom{start}");
$geom{totalcylinders} = $geom{cylinders};
#- $geom{cylinders} is no good (only a ushort, that means less than 2^16 => at best 512MB)
@@ -232,7 +243,7 @@ sub test_for_bad_drives {
my ($hd) = @_;
log::l("test_for_bad_drives($hd->{file})");
- my $sector = $hd->{geom}{sectors} - 1;
+ my $sector = $hd->{geom} ? $hd->{geom}{sectors} - 1 : 0;
sub error { die "$_[0] error: $_[1]" }