"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Good! > 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. Sounds like an obvious improvement. As for form, it's nice if I can apply it with git-am. It'd be nice to have a rule (finally) to generate the bytes automatically. > I presume a copyright assignment will be necessary. Yes. I'll send it separately. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
