Re: [Gptfdisk-general] sgdisk and Hybrid without prepend of EFI partition support

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 11/21/2012 06:45 AM, Mario Fetka wrote:
> sgdisk when run with -h to create a Hybrid part/tables will always add
> an EFI part bevore the specified partitons
> a EFI part is not needed on arm devices
>
> could you plz add for ex
>
> -H, --hybrid-noefi=partnum[:partnum...]
>                                create hybrid MBR without prepended EFI

If I understand correctly, you're saying that you've got an ARM device 
that will recognize a GPT disk even without a 0xEE protective partition 
in the MBR. I've never before heard of an OS or utility that would 
interpret a disk as GPT even when it's lacking a 0xEE protective MBR 
partition. I'm reluctant to add support for creating such disks because 
so many other OSes and utilities will NOT interpret them as you might 
expect, so this will just end up creating more problems, beyond those 
that hybrid MBRs already create.

If you can point me to more detailed documentation of what can actually 
use such an extreme configuration and why it might be helpful, I might 
reconsider this decision.

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Rod Smith
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