[PATCH v5 38/46] boot: Consider non-bootable partitions

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Mar 18 15:04:00 CET 2025


On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 02:25:58PM +0000, Simon Glass wrote:

> Any 'bootable' flag in a DOS partition causes boostd to only scan
> bootable partitions for that media. This can mean that extlinux.conf
> files on the root disk are missed.
> 
> Put this logic behind a flag and update the documentation.
> 
> For now, the flag is enabled, to preserve existing behaviour. Future
> work may provide a command (or some other mechanism) to control this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Isn't this backwards as the existing behavior (prior to bootstd) was to
scan and use these files, and so that's the behavior we need to preserve
by default.

-- 
Tom
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