limine-deploy: Do not mark any protective MBR partition as active
diff --git a/limine-deploy/limine-deploy.c b/limine-deploy/limine-deploy.c
index b324e949..e32c00d7 100644
--- a/limine-deploy/limine-deploy.c
+++ b/limine-deploy/limine-deploy.c
@@ -428,8 +428,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
}
}
+ bool any_active = false;
+
device_read(&hint8, 446, sizeof(uint8_t));
if (hint8 != 0x00 && hint8 != 0x80) {
+ any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
if (!force_mbr) {
mbr = 0;
} else {
@@ -439,6 +442,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
}
device_read(&hint8, 462, sizeof(uint8_t));
if (hint8 != 0x00 && hint8 != 0x80) {
+ any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
if (!force_mbr) {
mbr = 0;
} else {
@@ -448,6 +452,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
}
device_read(&hint8, 478, sizeof(uint8_t));
if (hint8 != 0x00 && hint8 != 0x80) {
+ any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
if (!force_mbr) {
mbr = 0;
} else {
@@ -457,6 +462,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
}
device_read(&hint8, 494, sizeof(uint8_t));
if (hint8 != 0x00 && hint8 != 0x80) {
+ any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
if (!force_mbr) {
mbr = 0;
} else {
@@ -465,6 +471,13 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
}
}
+ if (!any_active) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "No active partition found, some systems may not boot.\n");
+ fprintf(stderr, "Setting partition 1 as active to work around the issue...\n");
+ hint8 = 0x80;
+ device_write(&hint8, 446, sizeof(uint8_t));
+ }
+
char hintc[64];
device_read(hintc, 4, 8);
if (memcmp(hintc, "_ECH_FS_", 8) == 0) {
@@ -506,25 +519,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
goto cleanup;
}
- bool any_active = false;
- uint8_t hint8;
-
- device_read(&hint8, 446, sizeof(uint8_t));
- any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
- device_read(&hint8, 462, sizeof(uint8_t));
- any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
- device_read(&hint8, 478, sizeof(uint8_t));
- any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
- device_read(&hint8, 494, sizeof(uint8_t));
- any_active = any_active ? any_active : (hint8 & 0x80) != 0;
-
- if (!any_active) {
- fprintf(stderr, "No active MBR partition found, some systems may not boot.\n");
- fprintf(stderr, "Setting partition 1 as active to work around the issue...\n");
- hint8 = 0x80;
- device_write(&hint8, 446, sizeof(uint8_t));
- }
-
size_t stage2_size = bootloader_file_size - 512;
size_t stage2_sects = DIV_ROUNDUP(stage2_size, 512);
