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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:19:02 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Hans Ottevanger <hans@beastielabs.net>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507130915250.56039@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <55A3D01E.40102@freebsd.org>
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> 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.



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