[syslinux:master] doc/gpt.txt: this is now fully implemented
syslinux-bot for H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jun 24 20:42:09 PDT 2010
Commit-ID: 921f578e03c2b19f1b4e7b14d4e69e988b47e2cc
Gitweb: http://syslinux.zytor.com/commit/921f578e03c2b19f1b4e7b14d4e69e988b47e2cc
Author: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:29 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
CommitDate: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:40:29 -0700
doc/gpt.txt: this is now fully implemented
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
---
doc/gpt.txt | 6 ++----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/gpt.txt b/doc/gpt.txt
index fd6f00d..0909932 100644
--- a/doc/gpt.txt
+++ b/doc/gpt.txt
@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ partition entry), except that the information is provided
synthetically. The MBR-compatible fields are directly usable if they
are < 2 TB, otherwise these fields should contain 0xFFFFFFFF and the
OS will need to understand the GPT partition entry which follows the
-MBR one. The "!GPT" magic number in EAX and the 0xEE partition type
+MBR one. The "!GPT" magic number in EAX and the 0xED partition type
also informs the OS that the GPT partition information is present.
-Currently, this is compatible with Syslinux as long as the Syslinux
-partition is < 2 TB; this probably will be improved in a future
-version.
+Syslinux 4.00 and later fully implements this protocol.
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