On 10/20/2011 12:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 20:46, Brian C. Lane<b...@redhat.com>
wrote:
I was also just wondering if we (Fedora) should be setting
legacy_boot on /boot partitions instead of the boot flag, since
the latter writes an EFI system GUID to the partition type.
Yes.
The more I think about this, I'm inclined to disagree. I think that
unless there is a specific need for setting this attribute, it should
not be set, rather than as some kind of default. To my knowledge the
EFI spec doesn't say these GPT attributes should be set by default,
so I feel that they should only be set when needed for an express
purpose.
FWIW, I agree with you on this, Chris -- an OS installer shouldn't be
setting any GPT attribute unless the user explicitly asks it to do so or
unless the installer installs a boot loader that requires one. That
said, an OS installer shouldn't be CHANGING GPT attributes, either, and
the last time I checked (a few months ago), libparted had a tendency to
clear all attributes whenever it wrote a new partition table. I haven't
checked this with the 3.0 version, though, so that may have changed.
--
Rod Smith
rodsm...@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
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