Lenovo BIOS boot fix

[Adrian Chadd]

I'm really confused. Why is the active flag not set again?

I thought that was the whole point of the active flag in the partition table.


-a


On 13 July 2015 at 08:54, Allan Jude <allanjude at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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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