A change to the UEFI specification could be proposed in the UEFI Forum. The partition described by the PMBR is bogus, though, so marking it as bootable seems risky; what's in that area is not bootable in the legacy BIOS method (i.e., loading the first logical block of the partition and executing offset zero as x86 code).
--- Rob Elliott HP Server Storage > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Phillip Susi > Sent: Saturday, 28 January, 2012 4:33 PM > To: Keshav P R > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [parted-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Add ability to set GPT PMBR boot > flag > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/28/2012 02:48 PM, Keshav P R wrote: > > 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. > > Ugh, they had to put that in the UEFI spec. Well that's a good reason. > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPJHeqAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75mHgH/0OPpV9NVP+h7mIIImSW > 4j0/ > r0j3fpd48dEIMsF+6a74p8hoDBXz0MXGMkfvclGZRcIF2vGHz5qTPxqUdbz4g92 > s > nxpI/xQsIaSMH6a1gRtoD2lF+hW+R8jpPx83v0KsGnHP41eXdLfDdlFRMErT/XI > W > s0H+Sm2/QdSoQQCJ7vjhHgKbQ0JRamN8sTFgWa0VPIDHU8tcLhBNINWsv/oE > RJU1 > 8k1DOyYyRsTCbV+7RaHHr5PiYrRJjCR0RZoIfbfeCD/HsEhYY3d6yp/SVylAHduD > Jdpuaa2UPLbYqY3VXXhI30/Vy1z/FUs5VPCwPS4JgTmWjjUdKh0794fB7oKN0B > M= > =pHST > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
