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

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/51230; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/51230: 'gpt biosboot' needs to mark protective mbr partition as 'active'
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 02:59:01 -0700

 On Jun 10,  8:30am, Hauke Fath wrote:
 } The following reply was made to PR bin/51230; it has been noted by GNATS.
 } 
 } From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
 } Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:25:02 +0200
 } 
 }  I noted, btw, that 'gpt restore' will restore the gpt from a backup,=20
 }  but it will not restore the protecting mbr. Since that can lead to=20
 }  nasty surprises later, it probably should.
 
      Actually, it will restore the "protecting mbr", and it will
 automatically adjust it if you are restoring to a disk of a different
 size.  'gpt backup' produces a text file, so you can look at it to
 see what is saved.  However, you should not edit it.
 
 }-- End of excerpt from Hauke Fath