I have been maintaining an MBR in the syslinux project which is a bit more advanced than the one shipped with parted. In particular, it supports EBIOS/EDD (necessary if there are partitions above the 1024 cylinder mark) and active logical partitions.
It also uses gas as opposed to as86 or nasm, so it should be easier to build. You can view the source code at: http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=tree;f=mbr;hb=HEAD I'd be happy to submit this to (lib)parted, but I'd like to check with you first if that is desirable and if so how you'd prefer to receive it. I presume a copyright assignment will be necessary. -hpa _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
