Re: Purpose of 'legacy_boot' attribute

2011-10-20 Thread Rod Smith
On 10/20/2011 12:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 20:46, Brian C. Lane wrote: I was also just wondering if we (Fedora) should be setting legacy_boot on /boot partitions instead of the boot flag, since the latter writes an EFI system GUID to the partition type. Yes. The m

Re: Purpose of 'legacy_boot' attribute

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Keshav P R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 20:46, Brian C. Lane wrote: >> I was also just wondering if we (Fedora) should be setting legacy_boot >> on /boot partitions instead of the boot flag, since the latter writes an EFI >> system GUID to the partition type. >

Re: Purpose of 'legacy_boot' attribute

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Keshav P R wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 20:46, Brian C. Lane wrote: > I was also just wondering if we (Fedora) should be setting legacy_boot > on /boot partitions instead of the boot flag, since the latter writes an EFI > system GUID to the partition type. > > >

Re: Purpose of 'legacy_boot' attribute

2011-10-19 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 19, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:15:28PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Is it correct that the parted 'legacy_boot' flag sets the partition >> attribute "Legacy BIOS Bootable" bit? And is there any case where it would >> be appropriate for it to be se

Re: Purpose of 'legacy_boot' attribute

2011-10-19 Thread Keshav P R
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 20:46, Brian C. Lane wrote: > I was also just wondering if we (Fedora) should be setting legacy_boot > on /boot partitions instead of the boot flag, since the latter writes an > EFI > system GUID to the partition type. > > Yes. And also change the linux partition type GUID

Re: Purpose of 'legacy_boot' attribute

2011-10-19 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:15:28PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Is it correct that the parted 'legacy_boot' flag sets the partition attribute > "Legacy BIOS Bootable" bit? And is there any case where it would be > appropriate for it to be set for an EFI System partition? > > I ask because I'm se