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Date:      Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:34:33 +0300
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Andy Neustadter <a.n.us@ieee.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot CURRENT without efi
Message-ID:  <A71EB96E-A404-442D-952C-DF6774CDC5C2@me.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2B2zecwbqWawbR0Nf75Aqw04q8JzYimxrxqevMbhTAjCJXsmYg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 5. juuni 2017, at 20:31, Andy Neustadter <a.n.us@ieee.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hi:
>=20
> I have an older HP desktop that does not support USB boot or UEFI.  Is
> it possible to use this machine with 12-current using GPT?  Any help
> or pointers to info would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

GPT does not require UEFI, BIOS boot will read the pmbr and should =
behave just as with MBR partitioning.

rgds,
toomas





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