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

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Sat Jan 28 22:33:14 UTC 2012


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On 01/28/2012 02:48 PM, Keshav P R wrote:
> The issue here is the UEFI spec specifically mentions "boot/active 
> flag should not be set on the 0xEE entry in PMBR. Any firmware
> that *strictly* complies with the spec will ignore the drive or
> show errors.

Ugh, they had to put that in the UEFI spec.  Well that's a good reason.


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