ColorfulRhino

@meganukebmp Which board have you tried this with? Most boards should use GPT and not the ancient msdos partition table. GPT shouldn't have such a problem.

> The aml-s9xx-box builds have a fat boot partition (so users can edit the extlinux.conf file for their specific type of TV Box). Do you know if there is a...

> For my use case, as long as the SD card boot partition is readable by modern Windows OSs and MacOS that is my particular issue. No worries there, even...

> @ColorfulRhino I think you are really discussing a separate issue (MBR vs GPT). This issue could probably be solved by changing the partition type from 0xEA to either 0x0B...

> I personally don't use /boot partition as much as possible, as their presence is generally indicative of legacy bootloaders. I believe /boot will also be created if you choose...

> This has a long history. Even MBR was a challenge. https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/doc/board/amlogic/boot-flow.rst & [LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip#8](https://github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip/pull/8) Sounds rough 😅 > That is all absolutely needed, either for x86 legacy BIOS (part of...

> BTW, IIRC, Windows doesn't mount boot partition by default. As you can see that the EFI boot partition doesn't be shown in explorer. It maybe a safety feature. Yeah...

Actually, I think something in Armbian's logic is not correct. As per https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification/ >- On disks with an MBR partition table: > - The boot partition — a partition with...

> The above behavior (which isn't really intended for classic u-boot senarios from my understanding) breaks existing functionality. It depends how you define "existing", since this 0xEA has been in...

> Further changes should be carefully considered -- we've already lost capabilities that were result of hard labor and were removed in the interest of "keeping it simple". It's a...