From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Sep 30 14:25:04 2014
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org
 [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
 (No client certificate requested)
 by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CD96A2B;
 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:25:04 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from forward6l.mail.yandex.net (forward6l.mail.yandex.net
 [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1819::6])
 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
 (Client CN "forwards.mail.yandex.net",
 Issuer "Certum Level IV CA" (verified OK))
 by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50B6624C;
 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:25:04 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from smtp18.mail.yandex.net (smtp18.mail.yandex.net [95.108.252.18])
 by forward6l.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 0972814E0E61;
 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:24:51 +0400 (MSK)
Received: from smtp18.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
 by smtp18.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 7594218A00E3;
 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:24:51 +0400 (MSK)
Received: from 84.201.166.31-vpn.dhcp.yndx.net
 (84.201.166.31-vpn.dhcp.yndx.net [84.201.166.31])
 by smtp18.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id iHV9T4tQKy-OoYKJR3j; 
 Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:24:50 +0400
 (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits))
 (Client certificate not present)
X-Yandex-Uniq: d174449d-231f-42c7-a54f-6cae04340100
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yandex.ru; s=mail;
 t=1412087090; bh=DHyJxltPPlATSAADrPZEqrhN5mK6FAWa8ekNq8tEHgc=;
 h=Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:
 References:In-Reply-To:X-Enigmail-Version:Content-Type:
 Content-Transfer-Encoding;
 b=UH1cEjO5yJ1mN4k9GdDk5V4ZSqQUokrW2Qdub4Z+3wGRQdSlYvC0r/cPCbniudHgP
 cR0sJz/B9uzOWnYDSnFFe1+zCj3y4fkQFanM6UDs4Cr+nFqPkpWRtlHgbyl1F0DHHu
 QRmssP27SlDoJrbDKkwOX2YPl8YCmtPqPBNE55d8=
Authentication-Results: smtp18.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru
Message-ID: <542ABCAD.8000008@yandex.ru>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 18:22:37 +0400
From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64;
 rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk>, 
 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GELI created on a GPT labelled partition doesn't work 2nd time
 around...
References: <FB80B30D52FBD7A0500EF984@study64.tdx.co.uk>
 <20140928130547.GD1620@garage.freebsd.pl>
 <5A6D15305F99246DAE25673C@Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk>
 <20140930135445.GB43300@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140930135445.GB43300@funkthat.com>
X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1
Precedence: list
List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations
 <freebsd-geom.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-geom>,
 <mailto:freebsd-geom-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-geom@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-geom-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom>,
 <mailto:freebsd-geom-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:25:04 -0000

On 30.09.2014 17:54, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> If I repeat the above steps without the initial GPT partition (i.e. against 
>> /dev/da0) - I end up with '/dev/da0.eli' - which I can then GPT fine etc.
> 
> gpt doesn't let you do gpt in gpt.. which explains why you can't
> create the second level of gpt...
> 
> Why do you want/need to partition again?  You could possibly use bsd
> as the second layer...

I think bsd in gpt may have problem with booting.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov