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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:24:09 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI,  loader.efi and /boot.config)
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On 18.01.2019 21:14, Toomas Soome wrote:

> errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is no=
t working - the code is there to be fixed.
 And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition
which has one, even if it is loaded from other partition itself.

> GPT does not have the concept of active partition.
 It has "bootme" / "bootonce" attributes. And [zfs]gptboot doesn't have
any tools to set these attributes, AFAIK. Same for UEFI boot code.

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// Lev Serebryakov


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