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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:19:40 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net>,  "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix
Message-ID:  <CAJ-Vmo=ofDKa5cUsEQh%2B=9CzOPN80yEQQL2meGRcZDW3Qeq2wQ@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm really confused. Why is the active flag not set again?

I thought that was the whole point of the active flag in the partition table.


-a


On 13 July 2015 at 08:54, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 2015-07-13 11:19, Warren Block wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working
>>> on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to request the active
>>> bit be set as well.
>>
>>
>> For GPT, that should be the default, because it matches the standard.
>>
>> I would like to see an effort to get Lenovo to fix their broken
>> UEFI/BIOS.  Adding non-standard PMBR configurations should be short-term
>> hack.
>
>
> Lenovo has fixed the issue in newer models, x230, t530, t540 etc work fine.
>
> Just the x220, t420, and t520 etc series do not.
>
> --
> Allan Jude
>
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