GNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #46716, Protective MBR partition is not...
You are not allowed to post comments on this tracker with your current authentication level.
bug #46716: Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable
Submitter: | Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov> | ||
Submitted: | Sat 19 Dec 2015 11:37:38 AM UTC | ||
Category: | Booting | Severity: | Major |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Item Group: | None |
Status: | Fixed | Privacy: | Public |
Assigned to: | None | Originator Name: | Alexander E. Patrakov |
Open/Closed: | Closed | Release: | 2.02~beta1 |
Release: | Reproducibility: | Every Time | |
Planned Release: | 2.03+ |
Sat 19 Dec 2015 02:39:10 PM UTC, comment #4: |
Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov> |
Sat 19 Dec 2015 01:05:46 PM UTC, comment #3: Protective MBR is not expected to contain any other partitions either.
|
Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar> |
Sat 19 Dec 2015 12:54:48 PM UTC, comment #2: OK, Tiano Core validates the protective partition as follows:
|
Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov> |
Sat 19 Dec 2015 12:42:22 PM UTC, comment #1: Well, changing this byte also makes the iso unbootable from flash drive in OVMF (i.e. in QEMU in UEFI mode). |
Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov> |
Sat 19 Dec 2015 11:37:38 AM UTC, original submission:
Some old BIOSes (including the one in Intel DG965SS desktop board) refuse to treat a USB drive as bootable if it has no bootable MBR partitions. This applies to all iso images that are created by grub-mkrescue and written to a USB flash drive with dd.
|
Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov> |
No files currently attached
Depends on the following items: None found
Items that depend on this one: None found
There are 0 votes so far. Votes easily highlight which items people would like to see resolved in priority, independently of the priority of the item set by tracker managers.
Follow 3 latest changes.
Date | Changed by | Updated Field | Previous Value | => | Replaced by |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2016-03-02 | phcoder | Status | None | Fixed | |
Open/Closed | Open | Closed | |||
2016-03-02 | phcoder | Planned Release | None | 2.03+ |
Powered by Savane 3.13-f8d8.
Corresponding source code
As requested, further discussion is in the mailing lists.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2015-12/msg00029.html