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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/31/2012 08:42 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 
> No?  The grub and LILO MBR boot code doesn't care about the boot
> flag.
> 

Those aren't really MBRs as much as bootloaders who stick themselves
in the MBR space.  There is a series of "standard" MBRs that ship with
Syslinux for example, and there are others from other OSes -- it has
serious advantages in that it keeps multiple OSes from clobbering the
same piece of code.

	-hpa