On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 10:27:28AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote: > The tricky thing is that fdisks by default see GPT partition, so you > have to force the tools to ignore GPT and use PMBR. Would it be possible to add a more user-friendly way to present this to the user? Maybe a special command to toggle the PMBR bootable flag while looking at the GPT? That would make the complexity / existence of the PMBR more discoverable for users, because it would show up in the built-in help command output while looking at the GPT. Toggling bootable is just about the only useful thing you can do with the PMBR on a GPT disk, and by far the most common, so "hiding" that functionality / status when looking at the bootability of GPT isn't ideal. > 3) use sfdisk: > > sfdisk --label-nested dos --activate /dev/sda 1 That's pretty non-obvious. I don't think many people would come up with that on their own if they aren't partitioning / sfdisk experts. Of course it makes a good recipe, so hopefully people will find it with google. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
