[parted-devel] [PATCH] Do not discard bootcode from extended partition

[Petr Uzel]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:41:39PM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I thought that valid boot sectors have a checksum or some kind of
> signature bytes. 

Do you mean the 0xAA55 MBR signature?

> It might be worth verifying that it is a valid boot
> sector before blindly using it. If it is not a valid boot sector, one
> might as well fill it with zeros.

Definitely - it should be simpler than checking whether we're creating
new extended partition or modifying existing one.



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Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer
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