Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:52:17 +1100 From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-projects@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r245399 - projects/altix2/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <50F55F11.3040005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201301132336.r0DNaLb7038996@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201301132336.r0DNaLb7038996@svn.freebsd.org>
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On 01/14/13 10:36, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Author: marcel > Date: Sun Jan 13 23:36:21 2013 > New Revision: 245399 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/245399 > > Log: > Marking the PMBR as active may be needed for some BIOSes to boot from the > disk, but also has some EFI implementations reject the GPT altogether. > Make the behaviour controllable by a sysctll and have it default to 1 > on i386 and amd64 and 0 otherwise. This means that we mark the PMBR as > active on i386 and amd64 by default, but remain compliant most of the > time. Would I be correct in thinking this provides a relevant workaround to the issue I reported a few months back? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-August/014864.html Sounds like you got bitten by the same problem as me? Cheers, Lawrence
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