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30.07.2018 12:42, Warner Losh wrote:

> No. They don't. There is no standard way to mark something unbootable...

Then a code in the boot area of our non-bootable partitions should prevent meaningless boot attempts
preferably skipping to next partition or drive like our boot0 can.