"James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current_at_jrv.org> writes: > Ollivier Robert <roberto_at_keltia.freenix.fr> writes: > > 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. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Some MBRs look for the active bit, some don't. It doesn't mean they're buggy; it's a design decision. FWIW, ours does. Some BIOSes *do* read the partition table; there was an issue some years ago with ThinkPads that froze at boot if you installed FreeBSD on them because they misidentified the FreeBSD partition as a suspend-to-disk partition. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Tue Dec 22 2009 - 10:48:11 UTC
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