Messages in this thread | | | From | Gwendal Grignou <> | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2016 14:51:01 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive |
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote: >
> > I have nothing against the agpt, just pass a boot param and voila, > you can use it. This is not some sort of recent regression we are > talking about here. How is this such a burden all of a sudden? Julius and I were looking at the code when we spotted the issue.
As Julius said, "just pass a boot param", is not easy on certain machines, like phone. It is not user friendly either. The system won't boot at all, a typical user will have to do a full reinstall to fix the error.
Running with forced_gpt always on is not a solution either, because SD card formatted with a plain MBR over an older image with a GPT won't be mounted properly: that newer MBR will be ignored.
Gwendal. > > Thanks, > Davidlohr
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