Re: install/53291: GPT prevents installation

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/53291; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/53291: GPT prevents installation
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 13:35:28 +0200

 On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 06:57:03PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
 >      Is this possible confustion with a UEFI disk as UEFI doesn't use
 > PBRs?  GPT with UEFI and GPT without UEFI use considerably different
 > mechanims to boot.
 
 This happens when attemtping to create a legacy boot environment with
 the installer, but the disk already has a GPT (for whatever reasons).
 The recipe in the "how to repeat" section perfectly reproduces it for
 me (but we have already seen reports of the same symptoms in the wild).
 
 Martin