On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 01:01:41PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 01/28/2012 12:00 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > 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. > > Like what? The only thing that looks at the flag is the microsoft MBR boot > code ( which you aren't using anyway with GPT ), and certain broken bioses > that insist on there being some partition with the flag set. Since basically > every system out there has some partition with the boot flag set, ( and some > bioses require it ) I can't see how it could possibly be a problem. >
We can't know for certain that there are not BIOS's that check to make sure it isn't set. Since that is how the spec was written it is possible that such a BIOS exists. It would be alot easier to just set it, but then what do we do if we find out that there are others expect it to be clear? -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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