[parted-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add ability to set GPT PMBR boot flag

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 28 18:01:41 UTC 2012


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On 01/28/2012 12:00 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> Because there may be some situations where users don't want the flag to
> be set. And there is a small chance that having it set could cause
> problems.

Like what?  The only thing that looks at the flag is the microsoft MBR boot code ( which you aren't using anyway with GPT ), and certain broken bioses that insist on there being some partition with the flag set.  Since basically every system out there has some partition with the boot flag set, ( and some bioses require it ) I can't see how it could possibly be a problem.

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