[parted-devel] [PATCH] GPT & BIOS Boot partition

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Thu Feb 21 06:07:34 UTC 2008


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:09:02PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > This patch adds support for BIOS Boot partition [1] in GPT.  It is exposed to
> > the user as "boot_bios" flag.
> 
> Hello Robert,
> 
> For this patch to be accepted, would be nice to have a test case for
> it. You could take a look at tests directory and see some of them as
> example.

Ok.  Will do when time permits (maybe this afternoon).

> Besides that, we'd need to contact GNU people to see if your papers
> for GRUB also works for Parted or not. So we can get it in.

Just checked; I'm not in the list for Parted.  But I'm willing to sign the
paper, of course.

-- 
Robert Millan

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