[Parted-maintainers] Bug#673042: parted: loose 'legacy BIOS bootable' flag on GPT disks

[Jérémy Bobbio]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 07:03:44PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Parted currently does not handle GPT partition flags properly when
> modifying a GPT. The most crucial flag that is lost is the 'legacy BIOS
> bootable'. It is used by SYSLINUX to detect which partition the system
> should be booted from, for example. Currently, any changes using parted
> (or one of the tools that rely on parted e.g. gnome-disk-utility) will
> make a system using SYSLINUX on GPT unbootable if the flag is not
> manually re-added. Pretty annoying, to say the least.
> 
> Attached is a patch against the version of parted currently in squeeze.
> It is made of three patches cherry-picked from upstream. Other GPT flags
> are still not preserved, but at least the 'legacy BIOS bootable' is.
> 
> This patch fails on the version currently in sid due to some issues with
> autoconf/automake stuff. I'd rather let you handle that, but the
> backported patches apply cleanly and manually building the code showed
> that they work as intended.
> 
> I think this issue is worth an update in the next stable point release.

Any news on this? Comments? Thing I should do?

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