Lenovo BIOS boot fix

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 13 15:54:18 UTC 2015


On 2015-07-13 11:19, Warren Block wrote:
>>
>> Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working
>> on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to request the active
>> bit be set as well.
>
> For GPT, that should be the default, because it matches the standard.
>
> I would like to see an effort to get Lenovo to fix their broken
> UEFI/BIOS.  Adding non-standard PMBR configurations should be short-term
> hack.

Lenovo has fixed the issue in newer models, x230, t530, t540 etc work fine.

Just the x220, t420, and t520 etc series do not.

-- 
Allan Jude


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