Some notes on RootOnZFS article in wiki
James R. Van Artsdalen
james-freebsd-current at jrv.org
Mon Dec 21 15:47:05 UTC 2009
Ollivier Robert wrote:
> On modern machines, system will boot from the GPT "freebsd-boot" partition w/o having it active
A correctly-written PC BIOS does not even look at (or for) a partition
table of any sort when booting. That's been the case for a
quarter-century. A system that does not boot without the active bit
set is buggy, not new vs. old.
In a PC architecture the boot code in the MBR is the first thing that
care about the partition table and active bits.
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