On Mon, 2007 May 14, Olaf Hering wrote:
Was this patch already applied to parted? Or will parted strictly follow the EFI spec and force a "fixed" msdos partition table. Btw, I dont have time to work on this feature anymore. > This patch adds a new 'set X map_gpt_to_msdos Y' function. > Using it will break the EFI spec (I cant verify it because the EFI spec > is not free). > > > On Apple systems with Intel hardware it is sometimes required to install > EFI unaware systems, such as Windows, grub or lilo. With this change, > parted will not destroy the existing primary partitions. > But, parted does some checks to make sure the LBA mapping in the > individual partitions match the existing gpt partitions. If they differ, > the msdos entry will be removed. > > One issue remains: the msdos partition types. gpt types can not be > mapped 1 to 1 to msdos partition types. I added a simple mapping to > (hopefully) let grub recognize the partition as readable. > > > This patch needes testing on Apple systems. > I do not have any DOS compatbile hardware. > > Example usage: > > sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mklabel gpt > sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 17k 1G > sudo parted -s /dev/sdb mkpart primary 2G 3G > sudo parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 map_gpt_to_msdos 2 > sudo parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 boot on > sudo parted -s /dev/sdb set 1 boot off > _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
