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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