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

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

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

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: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:55:38 +0200

 On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 09:50:00 +0000 (UTC), John Nemeth wrote:
 >  }  I noted, btw, that 'gpt restore' will restore the gpt from a backup,=
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 >  }  but it will not restore the protecting mbr. Since that can lead to=3D=
 20
 >  }  nasty surprises later, it probably should.
 > =20
 >       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.
 
 Sorry, the above was meant to say "gpt recover".
 
 I just retried with -current gpt, and while it will restore a=20
 dd(8)ed-over primary gpt from the secondary copy, it will not restore=20
 the PMBR.
 
 Cheerio,
 hauke
 
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