svn commit: r195045 - head/sys/boot/i386/libi386

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 26 14:52:44 UTC 2009


On Friday 26 June 2009 5:32:31 am Rui Paulo wrote:
> Author: rpaulo
> Date: Fri Jun 26 09:32:31 2009
> New Revision: 195045
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195045
> 
> Log:
>   On special systems where the MBR and the GPT are in sync (up to the 4th
>   slicei, Apple EFI hardware), the bootloader will fail to recognize the GPT
>   if it finds anything else but the EFI partition. Change the check to continue
>   detecting the GPT by looking at the EFI partition on the MBR but
>   stopping successfuly after finding it.

Technically it is not an EFI partition btw.  That is a different type.  0xee
is a dedicated type used to mark a PMBR.

-- 
John Baldwin


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