Bug#1087489: [RFD] partman: Add support of the 'legacy_boot' flag to manual partitioning

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Pascal,

On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:36 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> On 14/11/2024 at 11:09, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > 
> > As the 'legacy_boot' flag is available only on GPT and the 'boot' flag is
> > irrelevant (=esp) on GPT and should be ignored, the same displays could be
> > used for both flags:
> > - GPT -> manage 'legacy_boot' flag, ignore 'boot' flag
> > - non-GPT -> manage 'boot' flag
> > 
> > My first questions:
> > 
> > - In the main display, should the 'legacy_boot' flag be shown with the 
> > same marker "B" as the 'boot' flag ?
> > 
> > - In partition settings, should the 'legacy_boot' flag be shown with the 
> > same label "Bootable flag" as the 'boot' flag ?
> 
> No answers so far, so I propose to answer "yes" to both questions. Less 
> change, no extra translation effort. Objections ?

Can you elaborate on this a little more to explain the background?

Doesn't this affect partman-efi only?

Adrian

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