[syslinux] [PATCH] Proposal for a pacifier option with mkdiskimage
Helmut Hullen
Hullen at t-online.de
Wed Jan 29 02:13:00 PST 2014
Hallo, Mattias,
Du meintest am 28.01.14:
>> Yes, we should probably fix that. The tool was originally designed
>> for images, not for hardware devices, and it doesn't make much sense
>> to zero the whole hardware device like that.
> Probably not. But a left over backup GPT at the end of a "disk" (hard
> disk, thumb drive, SSD, eMMC) now confuses some UEFI implementations
> that look for GPT first (or only) on boot media.
Maybe it's a completely other problem: I had to learn that I had to
delete other (older) file systems with "wipefs".
Especially when I worked with "btrfs".
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
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