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Re: GPT attributes in dkwedge [PATCH]



abs%absd.org@localhost (David Brownlee) writes:

>Our gpt(8) states "bootme flag is used to indicate which partition
>should be booted by UEFI boot code", which could be read either way.

The flag is used to find the partition to load /boot, /boot.cfg or
the kernel from. The boot disk information is also passed to the
kernel and may be used to find the root filesystem.

So in many cases bootme marks the root partition. It is rarely 
used on the EFI partition, but that's also a possibility.




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