Re: bin/51230: 'gpt biosboot' needs to mark protective mbr partition as 'active'

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

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From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/51230: 'gpt biosboot' needs to mark protective mbr
 partition as 'active'
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:00:39 +0200

 On Thu,  9 Jun 2016 12:35:01 +0000 (UTC), Christos Zoulas wrote:
 >  can you try the gpt from head.
 
 With gpt from -current source, as built on netbsd-7, 'gpt <disk>=20
 biosboot'(*) does not set the protective mbr's 'active' flag either.
 
 Nor did I see anything in the source that pretends to.
 
 Cheerio,
 hauke
 
 
 (*) Thanks to whoever decided to change 'gpt <command> <disk>' to 'gpt=20
 <disk> <command>', btw...
 
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