John Gilmore wrote: ... > I was thinking you could manipulate the fake MBR at the front of a GPT > drive to useful effect, e.g. allowing an old BIOS to boot a GPT drive. > If you think so too, there's a great page here: > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html > > about "Hybrid MBRs" and all the problems you can find with them. (The > page also says parted wipes out any hybrid MBRs it finds, at least in > version 1.9.0; has that been fixed?)
I don't know off hand, but there was a hybrid-related bug that was fixed in 2.2: gpt: read-only operation could clobber MBR part of hybrid GPT+MBR table [bug introduced in parted-2.1] So far, I've kept Parted out of the hybrid-market, partly because it will end up having been just a passing fad, and there are existing tools that meet that need. Eventually all systems will be able to boot from GPT-partitioned disks. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
