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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:30:30 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195045 - head/sys/boot/i386/libi386
Message-ID:  <200906260930.31050.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200906260932.n5Q9WVK9081205@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200906260932.n5Q9WVK9081205@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Friday 26 June 2009 5:32:31 am Rui Paulo wrote:
> Author: rpaulo
> Date: Fri Jun 26 09:32:31 2009
> New Revision: 195045
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195045
> 
> Log:
>   On special systems where the MBR and the GPT are in sync (up to the 4th
>   slicei, Apple EFI hardware), the bootloader will fail to recognize the GPT
>   if it finds anything else but the EFI partition. Change the check to continue
>   detecting the GPT by looking at the EFI partition on the MBR but
>   stopping successfuly after finding it.

Technically it is not an EFI partition btw.  That is a different type.  0xee
is a dedicated type used to mark a PMBR.

-- 
John Baldwin



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