[Bug 194359] bsdinstall should set active flag in GPT PMBR if not booting using EFI

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194359

--- Comment #4 from Colin Percival <cperciva at FreeBSD.org> ---
I have only a very vague notion of how booting works these days, but my
understanding is that we're already setting up things differently based on
whether we expect to boot via BIOS or UEFI; and that (aside from when using a
ZFS root, which is incompatible with UEFI) the installer detects how it was
booted and sets up the system to boot the same way.

If the above is correct, I think all we need is a "if we're setting up the disk
to be booted via BIOS, gpart set -a active it".  Allan, does this make sense?

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