Re: Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki

From: James R. Van Artsdalen <james-freebsd-current_at_jrv.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:47:03 -0600
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.
Received on Mon Dec 21 2009 - 14:47:05 UTC

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