[parted-devel] MBR for parted

[Jim Meyering]

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 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.

Good!

> 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.

Sounds like an obvious improvement.
As for form, it's nice if I can apply it with git-am.
It'd be nice to have a rule (finally) to generate the bytes
automatically.

>  I presume a copyright assignment will be necessary.

Yes.  I'll send it separately.