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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2019 17:28:16 +0200
From:      Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
To:        Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com>
Cc:        bsd-lists@bsdforge.com, Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: CURRENT October images do not create a bootable install
Message-ID:  <7AE5B109-5458-4246-B561-C10C382DE1D7@me.com>
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> On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 gljennjohn@gmail.com said
>> I chose GPT.
>=20
> Maybe whoever wrote the EFI/BIOS code in your machine went all-in on
> "Legacy", and it only handles MBR disks (or disks < 2.2TB)?
> After all, it seems like "not booting" would be a standards-compliant
> way for a classic BIOS to handle a GPT disk.
>=20

if your system is not booting from GPT disk, it means it is not =
standards compliant.

rgds,
toomas




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