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From: Jeff Kletsky <jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot
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The following reply was made to PR bin/115406; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Kletsky <jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, kent@khauser.net
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Subject: Re: bin/115406: [patch] gpt(8) GPT MBR hangs award BIOS on boot
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:03:11 -0700

 This needs another set of eyes on it.
 
 Re-reading the Intel spec in Table 11-7
 
 Set to match the Starting LBA of the EFI Partition
 structure. Must be set to 0xFFFFFF if it is not possible
 to represent the starting LBA.
 
 suggests that the *starting* CHS should be the beginning of the disk,
 for a PMBR that protects the entire disk, as the OP indicates in the patch.