Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 08:43 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> I suppose it is possible that something somewhere is wanting to zero the
> GPT even in msdos mode (as you say below, perhaps to wipe any remains of
> a GPT).

I think it is parted doing this in ped_disk_clobber which is called from
various bits of the installer via ped_disk_commit et al.
partman-base/parted_server.c seems to be the main thing which does this
stuff. I don't see anything about preserving any parts of it though...

Ian.