Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 01:08:00 +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 Message-ID: <bug-194359-8-Ep4xTT3FZb@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-194359-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-194359-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194359 --- Comment #13 from Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> --- (In reply to Ed Maste from comment #12) > 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? I known ia64 rejects the partitioning entirely. I belief lstewart@ ran into the problems on x86 that triggered the change to not set the active flag by default. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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