diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e4806bd6d..114821ae8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-11-18  Christian Franke  <franke@computer.org>
+
+	* disk/host.c (grub_host_open): Remove attribute unused from
+	name parameter. Add check for "host". This fixes the problem
+	that grub-emu does not find partitions.
+
 2007-11-18  Christian Franke  <franke@computer.org>
 
 	* util/hostfs.c (is_dir): New function.
diff --git a/disk/host.c b/disk/host.c
index 5b3c4f0f4..6767f5a3c 100644
--- a/disk/host.c
+++ b/disk/host.c
@@ -34,8 +34,11 @@ grub_host_iterate (int (*hook) (const char *name))
 }
 
 static grub_err_t
-grub_host_open (const char *name __attribute((unused)), grub_disk_t disk)
+grub_host_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk)
 {
+  if (grub_strcmp (name, "host"))
+      return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE, "not a host disk");
+
   disk->total_sectors = 0;
   disk->id = (int) "host";