Bug 253496

Summary:	/usr/libexec/bsdinstall/auto active workaround
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	corvid
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me	Keywords:	install
Priority:	---
Version:	12.2-RELEASE
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any

Description corvid 2021-02-14 07:37:56 UTC

I was having a look in that file, saw that there was a workaround for the Latitude E7440, and thought whatever it needed was bound to be necessary on my E6440 as well. And maybe it was that partition error message that I get at boot.

This led me to bug #194359 , which sure sounds like it. So I gave the offered "gpart set -a active [disk]" a try, and it worked! No more "Invalid partition table!" at boot. Which also leads to a documentation question of: If there's anything in gpart(8) about setting active on an entire drive and not just an MBR partition, I don't see it. So is it meant to be somewhat secret/undocumented, as it's only for certain screwy systems?