Re: fdisk/kernel gpt detection on hybrid mbr disks

2016-03-12 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 12 March 2016 at 22:59, joshua stein wrote: > I used the built-in Disk Utility in Mac OS X to slice off a new FAT > partition, and then booted the OpenBSD installer and changed the > partition type in fdisk to OpenBSD to install to it. > > Because Disk Utility creates a hybrid MBR and not just

Re: fdisk/kernel gpt detection on hybrid mbr disks

2016-03-15 Thread joshua stein
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 at 01:49:19 -0500, Kenneth Westerback wrote: > The non-support for Hybrid MBRs was a deliberate choice and there are > no plans to open that can of worms. Hybrid MBRs are not part of the > GPT/UEFI standard as far as I can discover, and almost everything > Google turns up on the

Re: fdisk/kernel gpt detection on hybrid mbr disks

2016-03-15 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 15 March 2016 at 19:03, joshua stein wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 at 01:49:19 -0500, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> The non-support for Hybrid MBRs was a deliberate choice and there are >> no plans to open that can of worms. Hybrid MBRs are not part of the >> GPT/UEFI standard as far as I can dis