Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:56:06 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys gpt.h src/lib/libstand Makefile src/sbin/gpt Makefile add.c boot.c gpt.8 gpt.c gpt.h show.c src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c src/sys/boot/i386 Makefile src/sys/boot/i386/gptboot Makefile gptboot.c gptldr.S ... Message-ID: <471FDB96.7060903@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200710242133.l9OLX05K085372@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200710242133.l9OLX05K085372@repoman.freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: This partition does not have a fixed size in that > /boot/pmbr will load the entire partition into the lower 640k. However, > it is limited in that it can only be 545k. That's still a lot better than > the current 7.5k limit for boot2 on MBR. gptboot mostly acts just like > boot2 in that it reads /boot.config and loads up /boot/loader. Some more > details: I suggest that we compile a freebsd 1.1 kernel up as the bootloader. :-) I remember that it cold be loaded below 640 when it was 386bsd. in fact I think it was me that moved it up to 1MB..
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