Laptops that will not boot

Juan Ramón Molina Menor listjm at club-internet.fr
Tue Jul 21 08:37:11 UTC 2015


> Does anyone else have a machine that won't boot from GPT without the
> active flag set?
>
> bsdinstall now has a blacklist for these models, and can apply the fix
> as part of the installation (ufs or zfs).
>
> If you are also suffering from this, please post your machine's details
> to get it added to the blacklist:
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194359
>
>
> -- 
> Allan Jude

Hi Allan. It seems that this problem affects some recent ThinkPads, but 
I’m not seeing it with a S440: the latest CURRENT memstick boots fine 
both in 'UEFI Only' and 'Legacy' modes.

So, don’t blacklist it, please! ;-)

Best regards,
Juan


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