Bit 2 in the GPT partition attributes has been allocated as the legacy
bios boot (equivalent to the "active" or "boot" flag in MBR). If we
try to boot images on newer x86 systems, syslinux dies because it can't
find any GPT partition marked bootable.
Update the various parts of cgpt add & show to manage this bit. Now we
can run:
cgpt add -i 12 -B 1 chromiumos_image.bin
And the EFI partition will be marked bootable.
BUG=chromium:644845
TEST=vboot_reference unittests pass
TEST=booted an amd64-generic disk image via USB on a generic laptop
BRANCH=None
Change-Id: I78e17b8df5b0c61e9e2d8a3c703e6d5ad230fe92
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/382411
Commit-Ready: Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randall Spangler <rspangler@chromium.org>
This patch makes cgpt aware of a special "IGNOREME" GPT header signature
string that may appear in either the primary or the secondary GPT and
cause cgpt (and other cgptlib clients) to completely ignore that GPT. It
will continue to function correctly for all other purposes (using the
data from the non-ignored GPT), but never write any data back to the
ignored GPT.
BRANCH=None
BUG=chrome-os-partner:52595
TEST=unit tests
Change-Id: I7e53542385ae9d8d24dc25b75e91f4ff4917f66f
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/340072
Reviewed-by: Nam Nguyen <namnguyen@google.com>
The length of the signature is 8 bytes. We've been checking 9
bytes instead, pretty much forever. All the tests have passed
because although the signature we're looking for is an 8-byte
string followed by a '\0', the next field in the header contains
the revision number 0x00010000, so the 9th byte is always zero.
We should follow the spec, though.
BUG=none
BRANCH=none
TEST=make runtests
Change-Id: I7cc6370250fa36a193f4a9fa5bc0099aea465618
Signed-off-by: Bill Richardson <wfrichar@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/247331
Reviewed-by: Randall Spangler <rspangler@chromium.org>
