[syslinux] [PATCH] isohybrid: Generate MBR even when in EFI mode
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Mar 26 14:49:36 PDT 2012
On 03/26/2012 02:47 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/15/2012 09:12 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Various EFI systems insist that there be no active flag in the pMBR in
>> order to parse the GPT. The only way around this is to also generate a
>> valid MBR - the firmware will then pick that up and use the system
>> partition provided there. In order to deal with other EFI "sanity" checks,
>> the partition type for the non-EFI partitions is set to 0 to skip the
>> firmware bailing because of overlapping partitions.
>> ---
>> utils/isohybrid.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> 1 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Hmmm... this patch doesn't apply to current master. What baseline is
> this from?
>
Nevermind, pilot error on my part.
-hpa
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