svn commit: r245399 - projects/altix2/sys/geom/part

[Lawrence Stewart]

On 01/14/13 10:36, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Author: marcel
> Date: Sun Jan 13 23:36:21 2013
> New Revision: 245399
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/245399
> 
> Log:
>   Marking the PMBR as active may be needed for some BIOSes to boot from the
>   disk, but also has some EFI implementations reject the GPT altogether.
>   Make the behaviour controllable by a sysctll and have it default to 1
>   on i386 and amd64 and 0 otherwise. This means that we mark the PMBR as
>   active on i386 and amd64 by default, but remain compliant most of the
>   time.

Would I be correct in thinking this provides a relevant workaround to
the issue I reported a few months back?

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-August/014864.html

Sounds like you got bitten by the same problem as me?

Cheers,
Lawrence