On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:19:45PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Joel Granados wrote: >> Just read this going throuhg 3 months of backed up parted mail. You >> make a very good point but I think going agains the spec is not the way >> to go. This would increase the possibility of incompatibilities with >> other UEFI spec implementations other than what parted has (which I'm >> not al all sure it complies 100% :) >> >> For me, this is a big question mark ATM. > > It's not going against spec. The UEFI spec doesn't specify what goes in > that area, and it is *guaranteed* to break GPT booting on BIOS > platforms, which is about as disastrous as you can get.
oops, yep, got mixed up with the legacy partition table. Which *should* be changed to make other apps understand that what is contained in the disk is gpt compliant. I really see no reason why we are zeroing this out. anybody? > > -hpa > -- Joel Andres Granados Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
