Laurent Vivier 2df8b7381b If the partition type is the mac partition type, this patch allows to ...

not select the partition to boot from but to boot from the first 
bootable partition.

"PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)
System binding to:
IEEE Std 1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization, Configuration) 
Firmware
Revision: 1.8"

"Chapter 11.1.2. Open Method Algorith"

"[...] If the partition component is present, it selects the desired 
partition, where partition 0 refers to the entire disk, partition 1 
refers to the first partition, partition 2 to the second, and so forth. 
If the partition component is absent and the disk has an FDISK or Mac 
partition, the first "bootable" partition is used. [...]"



git-svn-id: svn://coreboot.org/openbios/trunk/openbios-devel@542 f158a5a8-5612-0410-a976-696ce0be7e32

2009-08-08 22:00:10 +00:00

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