[PATCH] disk: part_efi: update partition table entries after write
Gary Bisson
gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com
Tue Jan 26 14:56:23 CET 2021
Fixes fastboot issues when switching from mbr to gpt partition tables.
Signed-off-by: Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com>
---
Hi,
I hesitated calling this a RFC as I'm not sure everyone will like the
idea.
Basically the issue encountered was the following:
- Device with its storage flashed with a MBR partition table
- Run fastboot to flash a new OS (and new partition table)
- After flashing a GPT partition table, U-Boot couldn't find any of the
partition names from the GPT
-> reason is that the partition table entries aren't updated
-> so U-Boot still believes it's a MBR table inside and so its parsing
fails
This commit adds an update of the table entries inside the
write_mbr_and_gpt_partitions() function. At first I thought maybe this
should be added in fastboot file (fb_mmc.c) but couldn't think of a good
reason why this shouldn't happened in part_efi directly.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Gary
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disk/part_efi.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
index 2f922662e6e..7a24e33d189 100644
--- a/disk/part_efi.c
+++ b/disk/part_efi.c
@@ -867,6 +867,9 @@ int write_mbr_and_gpt_partitions(struct blk_desc *dev_desc, void *buf)
return 1;
}
+ /* Update the partition table entries*/
+ part_init(dev_desc);
+
return 0;
}
#endif
--
2.29.2
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