partitions/efi: loosen check fot pmbr size in lba
Matt found that commit 27a7c642 ("partitions/efi: account for pmbr size in lba") caused his GPT formatted eMMC device not to boot. The reason is that this commit enforced Linux to always check the lesser of the whole disk or 2Tib for the pMBR size in LBA. While most disk partitioning tools out there create a pMBR with these characteristics, Microsoft does not, as it always sets the entry to the maximum 32-bit limitation - even though a drive may be smaller than that[1]. Loosen this check and only verify that the size is either the whole disk or 0xFFFFFFFF. No tool in its right mind would set it to any value other than these. [1] http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/GPT.htm#GPTPT Reported-and-tested-by: Matt Porter <matt.porter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Please register or sign in to comment