Re: bin/51230: 'gpt biosboot' needs to mark protective mbr partition as 'active'

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/51230; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/51230: 'gpt biosboot' needs to mark protective mbr
 partition as 'active'
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:58:34 +0200

 On Thu,  9 Jun 2016 14:50:01 +0000 (UTC), Hauke Fath wrote:
 >  ... and 'gpt-current <disk> recover' after a previous 'fdisk 0 a=20
 >  <disk>' doesn't either.
 
 A 'gpt recover' after dd(1)ing over the start of the disk works, so 
 presumably, gpt and mbr formats store their backups at the same place 
 near the end of the disk? 
 
 Could gpt(8) maybe steer clear of the older brother's data when writing 
 its backup?