On 10/07/2013 07:59 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/7/2013 2:21 AM, Avik Sil wrote: >> From: Daniel Battaiola Kreling <dbkrel...@br.ibm.com> >> >> PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) boot partition is the first >> partition used in PowerPC platform for containing the bootable >> kernel or bootloader. The firmware searches for this partition and >> jumps to it for booting. So far no GUID was specified for this >> partition type and hence booting from GPT disk was not supported on >> this platform. A new GUID 9e1a2d38-c612-4316-aa26-8b49521e5a8b for >> PReP partition is proposed to be included in GPT. > > Doesn't this old platform only understand the apple partition map, and > not gpt? Picking a guid out of the air isn't going to teach the > firmware to look for it. > Yes, and firmware support for it is also being added. For example, in guest firmware SLOF, this support has already been added [1]. And GRUB2 also now supports PReP GUID [2].
Regards, Avik [1] https://github.com/aik/SLOF/commit/0ee161892795db614d3bb9c59fc999cc79898b11 [2] http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/revision/5190 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSUsViAAoJEJrBOlT6nu758P4H/2MU62HZPrEGb7RJMYcsec3T > wDsMn1sJClyMVirDbAXqt5GUuO2Of8RnYzOj3HJWc8xa1lYJwyXlmoR/4KqJ0s8V > WDjH8ldGO4mYZMxRXE2KdBAfUOPRE5cTAeWC2gzPWcKtZmIs/dmMc8/N6Es8FBwL > fLgYr727JdHwVwwK+cXdwk+bb5P5oQHZ9uueeyvzT3yi4DZUe0nKHHOW4GhsBHWj > cYqRxZ9sgHHerOQE2UY+MC1CLDMQrM21lO37sopn9XHRb6W+pe+ceHX55ZGYZ54X > gU16J4zS4mNTTgsrep5jeicv/7B+bDOkoej8ACG8CbbkwNaAiJSzcEH/Q+FLuno= > =4dPe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
