#962809 vmdb2: allow setting partitions bootable

Package:
vmdb2
Source:
vmdb2
Submitter:
Florian La Roche
Date:
2021-08-19 15:03:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#962809#5
Date:
2020-06-14 12:29:50 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

it would be good to add configuration possibiities to toggle a partition
bootable within the config file. I am right now changing the image after
creating it with vmdb2, code within vmdb2 would keep the whole setup in
one place.

Just an idea, current package still works great.

best regards,

Florian La Roche
#962809#10
Date:
2020-06-14 17:14:37 UTC
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To:
Florian La Roche dijo [Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 02:29:50PM +0200]:

What do you mean by bootable? Is it the old DOS partition flag for
this? What difference does that make nowadays?

Greetings,
#962809#15
Date:
2020-06-14 17:14:37 UTC
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To:
Florian La Roche dijo [Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 02:29:50PM +0200]:

What do you mean by bootable? Is it the old DOS partition flag for
this? What difference does that make nowadays?

Greetings,
#962809#20
Date:
2021-08-19 14:50:44 UTC
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Control: tag -1 upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://gitlab.com/larswirzenius/vmdb2/-/issues/2

Setting boot/partition flags is needed in various situations and MBR is still
very much in use. But I 'forwarded' this bug to an upstream issue which is
about setting GPT partition flags.
So partitions flags is not some relic from the past.