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Date:      Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:09:31 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPT - (last) call for action
Message-ID:  <f4f8f1$as7$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200706092128.l59LSjRs027671@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     But do we have to make slice #1 bootable?  Could we also create a
>     slice #2 in the MBR that points into the GPT's first partition, mark
>     it bootable, and thus be able to put boot1 in the GPT's first partition?
>     Or will the BIOS fart on the overlapping MBR slices?

I've seen old AMI BIOSes confused by this. Don't know if recent ones
will take it.


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