Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This patch adds support for BIOS Boot partition [1] in GPT. It is exposed to
> the user as "boot_bios" flag.
>
> Marking partitions as bootable by BIOS allows bootloaders to know they can put
> their code in them (much as they would in the 63 sector gap that DOS labels
> used
> to provide).
>
> GRUB 2 already embeds itself in this area whenever found (as of current CVS).
>
> [1] Not to be confused with hybrid MBR-GPT hacks! ;-)
>
Is there any specification for this?
This seems like a specific boot GUID, but is there any documentation as
to handover protocols, cross-OS support, etc; or is this a "Grub2-only
standard"?
-hpa
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