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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:17:45 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 194359] bsdinstall should set active flag in GPT PMBR if not booting using EFI
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--- Comment #12 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
>From that file:
>  73         if (stat("/sys/firmware/efi", &buf) != -1)
>  74                 flag |= EFI_SUPPORT;

I'm not sure if Linux creates /sys/firmware/efi for the legacy boot case, but
if so we'd need to find out how it does that.

Do we know which systems fail to boot with PMBR active bit set in the
non-(U)EFI boot case?

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