[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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