Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:47:03 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki Message-ID: <4B2F9877.70201@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <20091221150514.GB75616@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr> References: <200912210600.46044.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <20091221150514.GB75616@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr>
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Ollivier Robert wrote: > On modern machines, system will boot from the GPT "freebsd-boot" partition w/o having it active A correctly-written PC BIOS does not even look at (or for) a partition table of any sort when booting. That's been the case for a quarter-century. A system that does not boot without the active bit set is buggy, not new vs. old. In a PC architecture the boot code in the MBR is the first thing that care about the partition table and active bits.
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