Bug 680562

Summary: Need to add GPT Legacy BIOS Bootable flag support
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Lane <bcl>
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Add GPT Legacy BIOS Bootable flag to Attribute struct
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Description Brian Lane 2011-02-25 22:13:31 UTC
In order for syslinux's gptmbr.bin to work with UEFI systems we need to be able to set the Legacy boot flag on GPT partitions. This is used with livecd-iso-to-disk when creating a bootable USB drive that works on BIOS and UEFI systems.

Comment 1 Brian Lane 2011-02-25 22:14:34 UTC
Created attachment 481094 [details]
Add GPT Legacy BIOS Bootable flag to Attribute struct

Comment 2 Brian Lane 2011-02-25 22:15:05 UTC
Created attachment 481095 [details]
Add legacy_boot flag support

Comment 3 Brian Lane 2011-02-25 22:15:42 UTC
The attached patches work, but should wait until after Alpha is released to be added.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-05-26 21:06:54 UTC
parted-2.3-9.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/parted-2.3-9.fc15