Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

19.12.2015 22:09, Thomas Schmitt пишет:
> Hi,
>
> Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > There is no regression [in xorriso].
>
> This is now my opinion, too.
> Regrettably the code has some history of stop-and-go development.
> I added features when Vladimir requested them. And now i cannot
> remember all the motivations.
>
> But it is surely no inadverted change. At worst it was a decision
> which has some drawbacks.
>
>
> > of course as we have precedent we cannot simply go and set it now.
>
> We could create an option in xorriso and in grub-mkrescue
> by which the user can override the automatic decision.
> Like --mark-mbr-part-bootable $part_number
> (or shorter :)).

Well, I don't think that it will work for my use case (creating an iso 
that works on all platforms, including broken UEFI platforms that check 
non-bootability of the 0xee partition and broken BIOS platforms that 
check that at least one bootable partition exists in the MBR).

In other words, without the ability to create a hybrid MBR (like gdisk 
does) or remove GPT, this flag would be useless.

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Alexander E. Patrakov