Re: Regarding the boot process.

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

riza.dindir%gmail.com@localhost (Riza Dindir) writes:

>On the other hand, this is very interesting, when I run the "gpt show
>-a sd0" (which is where the HDD is connected via USB) I see that the
>NetBSD partition has the "biosboot" attribute, not the "bootme"
>attribute. Would this cause the boot to fail?

bootme is used by the EFI bootloader to select the boot partition.
If that flag isn't set, there is a heuristic to select a boot partition.

biosboot is used by the gptmbr (legacy) bootloader to select a partition,
that's like an "active" partition in a MBR partition table.

You can use the 'gpt set' and 'gpt unset' commands to modify the flags.