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

[Brian C. Lane]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:51:09PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
> A change to the UEFI specification could be proposed in the UEFI Forum.  The partition described by the PMBR is bogus, though, so marking it as bootable seems risky; what's in that area is not bootable in the legacy BIOS method (i.e., loading the first logical block of the partition and executing offset zero as x86 code).

My understanding is that this has been proposed. But there will still be
older systems around so there should be a way to modify and display the
status of the flag.

My main question with these patches is what people think about the
change to the output formatting in interactive and machine mode. I would
hope that nobody is parsing the output of interactive mode other than
the parted tests which I've already updated. machine mode may cause some
problems, depending how people implement their parsing but that should
be easy for them to fix.

-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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