On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 00:44, Phillip Susi <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/28/2012 01:23 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: >> 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. > > I'm pretty sure we can actually, since such a bios wouldn't be able to boot > Windows, or at least some Linux distributions that go ahead and set the flag > because some bioses won't boot without it. If such a bios were released, not > being able to boot the de facto standard PC OS certainly would result in it > being fixed very quickly. >
The issue here is the UEFI spec specifically mentions "boot/active flag should not be set on the 0xEE entry in PMBR. Any firmware that *strictly* complies with the spec will ignore the drive or show errors. >> 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? > > Theoretically, then you would need to add a flag to switch it off. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPJEkzAAoJEJrBOlT6nu751JUH/15b+v1Sn0fi/JeEh7L0Op+W > nPhPlLNY0PTPgEsD+b1VU1532Myi65RzbZ90exX7CZlpxWdq9XWWkQXAydrZc4XH > Y9xUepLnWUbYWtiPo4aU4294DZQE8CyGu4k791iEsULypC+RJIt/RqHmdG3oawJM > KnRLcHo165Rfi+Vekrhz90jdOwSTnpHvwNI/fB0WNnzMD1MwReYET+00TAFJvpnE > 3vhwdAFqVUClP9cma4SmT+rsn7TVQH7UNDGngtgnxjRMZRobkkRSldc7NxdmQfc1 > o1VTv7/NIj1kQrgZ2nRXHojsXUkGJsuV1ZCsCxNj2kovSjpsYiNdszOgBogV0+k= > =Q88d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
