Re: rx2600 EFI system partition troubles

Marcel Moolenaar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ia64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Kevin Day <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, I went back and did things manually. I created an EFI partition, newfs_msdos'ed it, created the directories, and all seemed well. But, the EFI Boot Manager doesn't seem to recognize it as a valid filesystem.

The FreeBSD kernel has grown x86-specific UEFI and BIOS warts in the GPT
code that turned into bugs over time. The one that affects you is that
the MBR is re-created unconditionally and the PMBR partition is flagged
as active everytime that happens. This is against the EFI spec.

I lack time to fix it right now unfortunately,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
[email protected]


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