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On 09/20/14 05:10, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>> Well, my pmbr isn't really an MBR, it's just the fake one to make things
>> "work right" as I understand it.  In fact, I don't really understand it,
>> or why it's necessary, but it's pretty clear that something's funky
>> here.
>
> it is only necessary if you use FreeBSD installer.
>

Could you describe the exact problem here so that we can fix the 
installer? If this is the mark one partition active thing, I'm not sure 
we can change that, since there are also systems *that* breaks.
-Nathan