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Subject: Re: nested GPT
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Please note that the boot loaders are unable to handle nested partition
schemes.  If you have any data necessary for the initial boot on such a
partition, it won't work.

On 07/29/2017 08:30, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> On 7/29/17, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:
>> i have GPT partitioned SSD, and some partitions are used for bhyve virtual
>> disk containing windows - itself GPT partitioned.
>>
>> whenbhyve is stopped geom doesn't look at this GPT partitioned partition.
>> ggatel is a workaround but can it be changed so nested GPT partitions will
>> work?
> 
> Take a look at geom_map(4).
> 
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