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bsdinstall: Suggest the GPT+Active workaround on Dell T5810

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The Dell Precision Tower 5810 fails to boot from GPT in Legacy/BIOS mode
without the Active flag in the Protective MBR.  Suggest the workaround
during installation.

Since an increasing number of Dell systems exhibit this behavior,
I imagine all Dells past a certain date will do so.  I would like
to suggest the workaround for all Dells with a BIOS date of, say,
2014 or later, but I would need to test a variety of systems before
committing such a change.

Reviewed by:	allanjude, dteske
MFC after:	5 days
Relnotes:	We should probably suggest using GPT+Active on "recent" Dells.
Sponsored by:	Dell Inc.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4075
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Eric van Gyzen 2016-01-14 00:31:00 +00:00
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@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ if f_interactive; then
;;
"Dell Inc.")
case "$sys_model" in
"Latitude E7440"|"Latitude E7240")
"Latitude E7440"|"Latitude E7240"|"Precision Tower 5810")
dialog_workaround "$msg_gpt_active_fix"
retval=$?
f_dprintf "gpt_active_fix_prompt=[%s]" "$retval"