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Subject: Re: Booting from gpt on i386/amd64? [PATCH]
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:52:51PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> 
> Hi, Marcel,
> 
> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Could you please commit the proposed patch? :)
>
In order for this patch not to be lost I have filed a PR:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127922

Alexey.