Re: Booting NetBSD from GPT/EFI

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

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:23:59 +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> It also looks as if some notebooks (I have my hands o an HP 2170p here) 
> blindly assume UEFI when they find a gpt formatted disk, even when 
> advised to attempt a "legacy boot".

I'll have to explore this 
<http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/GPT-drive-BootDevice-Not-found/td-p/5053274>, 
though - our protective mbr 

# fdisk sd0

[snip]

Partition table:
0: GPT Protective MBR (sysid 238)
    start 1, size 234441647 (114473 MB, Cyls 0/0/2-14593/80/63)
        PBR is not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000)
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
No active partition.

does not mark the gpt "partition" as active, either.

Cheerio,
hauke

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