On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 07:03:44PM +0200, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > Parted currently does not handle GPT partition flags properly when > modifying a GPT. The most crucial flag that is lost is the 'legacy BIOS > bootable'. It is used by SYSLINUX to detect which partition the system > should be booted from, for example. Currently, any changes using parted > (or one of the tools that rely on parted e.g. gnome-disk-utility) will > make a system using SYSLINUX on GPT unbootable if the flag is not > manually re-added. Pretty annoying, to say the least. > > Attached is a patch against the version of parted currently in squeeze. > It is made of three patches cherry-picked from upstream. Other GPT flags > are still not preserved, but at least the 'legacy BIOS bootable' is. > > This patch fails on the version currently in sid due to some issues with > autoconf/automake stuff. I'd rather let you handle that, but the > backported patches apply cleanly and manually building the code showed > that they work as intended. > > I think this issue is worth an update in the next stable point release.
Any news on this? Comments? Thing I should do?
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