From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 00:01:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CAD106566C for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout012.mac.com (asmtpout012.mac.com [17.148.16.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE718FC1A for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:01:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from [192.168.1.95] (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by asmtp012.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7K00H0WLDVIP90@asmtp012.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:01:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Alexey Shuvaev In-reply-to: <20080920022612.GA4934@localhost.my.domain> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:01:03 -0700 References: <20080829205313.GA30330@wep4017.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <3a142e750808291416o25b6678bm2b6fa75d0f8e4714@mail.gmail.com> <20080831103555.GA12957@wep4017.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <20080920022612.GA4934@localhost.my.domain> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Booting from gpt on i386/amd64? [PATCH] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:01:24 -0000 On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Alexey Shuvaev wrote: > Ok, I have digged the sources a little bit and ended with this simple > patch. Actually, the code is taken from gpt(8) utility. > It adds automatic padding of gptboot bootcode to the nearest sector > boundary. I think this is reasonable. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com