On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:21:30PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:50:11PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > The bios_grub flag was added with this commit: > > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commitdiff;h=b65f8e479aac6ca > > > > but was accompanied by no documentation update. > > > > The following is probably too vague. > > Robert, can you provide a better description? > > Hi Jim, > > I wrote this for GRUB wiki a while ago: > > http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition > > (in case this is an issue, I consider this text covered by my copyright > assignment agreement with FSF, wiki history should reflect authorship)
Maybe something shorter would do, like: @item bios_grub (GPT) - Mark the selection partition as usable for BIOS-based boot, so that bootloaders that use static embedding (like GNU GRUB) can put their boot code in it. In any case, I recommend reading that wiki page, it provides an extensive explanation on what a BIOS Boot partition is useful for. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
