Re: [bug #46716] Protective MBR partition is not marked as bootable

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> There is no regression [in xorriso].

This is now my opinion, too.
Regrettably the code has some history of stop-and-go development.
I added features when Vladimir requested them. And now i cannot
remember all the motivations.

But it is surely no inadverted change. At worst it was a decision
which has some drawbacks.


> of course as we have precedent we cannot simply go and set it now.

We could create an option in xorriso and in grub-mkrescue
by which the user can override the automatic decision.
Like --mark-mbr-part-bootable $part_number
(or shorter :)).


Have a nice day :)

Thomas