[syslinux] chain.c32: hiding partitions

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have added a "hide" command to chain.c32; this hides any *primary* 
> partitions on the drive with a DOS, OS/2 or Win32 partition type by 
> adding 0x10 to the partition type, and the reverse for the partition 
> being booted.
> 
> I currently do not modify logical partitions.
> 
> I would have made this a prerelease, except I can't get to my build 
> machine at the moment.  However, if this is relevant functionality for 
> you and you can build syslinux from git, you may want to test it out.
> 
> NOTE: this *does* write to the disk, so you may want to smoke-test it on 
> a box you don't care about if you lose data...
> 

This is now available as syslinux-3.71-pre7.

	-hpa