[parted-devel] MBR for parted

[H. Peter Anvin]

I have been maintaining an MBR in the syslinux project which is a bit
more advanced than the one shipped with parted.  In particular, it
supports EBIOS/EDD (necessary if there are partitions above the 1024
cylinder mark) and active logical partitions.

It also uses gas as opposed to as86 or nasm, so it should be easier to
build.

You can view the source code at:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=tree;f=mbr;hb=HEAD

I'd be happy to submit this to (lib)parted, but I'd like to check with
you first if that is desirable and if so how you'd prefer to receive it.
 I presume a copyright assignment will be necessary.

	-hpa