I have done a first draft of a GPT-under-BIOS booting protocol; it's designed as a straightforward extension of the existing MBR-under-BIOS handover protocol.
There is an implementation in the syslinux git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=summary The spec is at: http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git;a=blob;f=doc/gpt.txt;hb=HEAD Note that this doesn't obviate the need for hybrid support (also described in the spec above), since that is required to boot proprietary protocols. It's also not at all clear to me that any proprietary vendor would play nice with *any* protocol we would come up with; they tend to suffer from NIH in a big way. -hpa _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
