Comment 6 for bug 555500

This patch may not be the perfect solution - that may need upstream's input - but it follows the same process used in biosdisk routines: where the GRUB device name begins "hd" set bit 7 (& 0x80) to indicate a hard disk.

In this case we don't have access to the same data but we can still apply the patch when the 'dest' begins "hd". It is slightly ropier that I've allowed it to also compare on drive->id == 0 since that, we now know, only relates to which line of 'device.map' the device is on. I'm relying on 'device.map' usually having the BIOS's first hard disk as the first listed.

grub2 (1.98-1ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  * Ensure buggy BIOS workaround is applied by grub-setup (LP: #555500).

 -- TJ <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:30:00 +0100