[Fedora-livecd-list] Using both EFI and MBR at once on Live USB images

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 08:00 -0400, Stewart Adam wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > First for the obvious question -- did you change the partition table on
> > the USB stick you're testing with to be a GPT partition table?  And then
> > had one partition inside that?
> > 
> > You can't change the partition type of the GPT partition to anything
> > other than 'ee' in the MSDOS partition table if you want to keep EFI
> > happy with it.
> > 
> > Multiple partitions might be a workaround, although, yeah, it would kind
> > of suck.  Probably worth trying I guess.
>
> For the tests I just created a new stick with --mactel (it told me
> it would erase all data and make a GPT table for me) and from there
> I just ran gptsync which said "nothing to do". So essentially, it's
> still an unmodified USB stick...

With a quick look at the gptsync code, this might actually be a bug in
gptsync -- it looks like it only does the sync if the number of
partitions doesn't match.  So getting rid of that check and making it
unconditionally sync might help

Jeremy