[PATCH] doc: mention the "bios_grub" flag
Jim Meyering
meyering at redhat.com
Wed Oct 14 10:34:56 UTC 2009
I don't like the idea of documenting this "flag setting" option,
but it's been in the code for long enough now, and in actual use,
that I feel obliged. In the longer term, we'll probably deprecate
it and instead add an interface to set a partition's type independent
of mkpart's "type" argument.
* doc/parted.texi (set): Mention bios_grub.
---
doc/parted.texi | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/parted.texi b/doc/parted.texi
index fdb9af3..499d660 100644
--- a/doc/parted.texi
+++ b/doc/parted.texi
@@ -1012,6 +1012,11 @@ either ``on'' or ``off''. Some or all of these flags will be available,
depending on what disk label you are using:
@table @samp
+
+ at item bios_grub
+(GPT) - Enable this to record that the selected partition is a
+GRUB BIOS partition.
+
@item boot
(Mac, MS-DOS, PC98) - should be enabled if you want to boot off the
partition. The semantics vary between disk labels. For MS-DOS disk
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