On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:16:15PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 01/27/2012 07:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Some BIOS systems refuse to boot from GPT disks unless the boot flag > > of the PMBR has been set. Matthew Garrett has written a patch to add > > a disk_set command and a legacy_boot flag for the disk. I have added > > display of the disk flags using a new output line, like so: > > Why add a flag? Why not just set the boot flag in the PMBR unconditionally?
Because there may be some situations where users don't want the flag to be set. And there is a small chance that having it set could cause problems. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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