On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 10:39:25PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Pelz wrote: > > I guess this is off-topic and we cannot learn anything about the > > permissibility of mformat -k from Windows? > > Yes. > > The on-topic conclusion so far is that i cowardly propose to zeroize > the MBR partition table in the mformat result before populating it > by mcopy. > (Code snippets from SYS_AREA_SPARC around line 855 could be transplanted > and adapted to zeroize bytes 446 to 509 of efiimgfat.) > > Exploring the other differences between mformat with and without -k is > probably useless, because the big truck makes its own lane anyway.
The thread is long and I am a bit lost. So, may I ask you to write a summary of your findings, what works and what does not and how the issue should be fixed and why this fix should land in the upcoming release. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
