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* grub/asmstub.c (biosdisk): Work around a bug in linux's ez

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remapping.  Problem reported by Ben Byer <bbyer@rice.edu>.
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2001-05-03 Jochen Hoenicke <jochen@gnu.org>
* grub/asmstub.c (biosdisk): Work around a bug in linux's ez
remapping. Problem reported by Ben Byer <bbyer@rice.edu>.
2001-03-28 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org>
* stage2/boot.c (load_image): Don't cast entry_addr to an int, or

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@ -872,6 +872,19 @@ biosdisk (int subfunc, int drive, struct geometry *geometry,
switch (subfunc)
{
case BIOSDISK_READ:
#ifdef __linux__
if (sector == 0 && nsec > 1)
{
/* Work around a bug in linux's ez remapping. Linux remaps all
sectors that are read together with the MBR in one read. It
should only remap the MBR, so we split the read in two
parts. -jochen */
if (nread (fd, buf, SECTOR_SIZE) != SECTOR_SIZE)
return -1;
buf += SECTOR_SIZE;
nsec--;
}
#endif
if (nread (fd, buf, nsec * SECTOR_SIZE) != nsec * SECTOR_SIZE)
return -1;
break;