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Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk
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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:48 +1100, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> Hmmm...  I was hoping for something more useful than that response.
> Where is it documented that I have to do "echo 'a 1' | fdisk -f
> - /dev/ad4" to make a disk bootable?

I committed a patch the other day that will set the active flag for a
GPT partitioned disk when you install bootcode on it.

robert.

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