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From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
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Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>,
	Jason Campbell <jason.lee.campbell@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick
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On 09/01/11 17:23, Matt Thyer wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2011 5:25 AM, "Warren Block"<wblock@wonkity.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image
> ?
>
>> It seems wrong to have gptboot just ignore backup GPT data, but it could
> be an option.  Can it actually do something if the backup GPT differs, or is
> it testing for an error that can't be handled?
>>
>> MBR didn't have backup data ("Luxury!  Pure luxury!"), and it did okay.
>
> A custom hacked gptboot just for the memstick?
>
> Sorry.... Been working with Linux too much lately.
>
> Probably the real solution is to use MBR and have BSDinstall and the install
> kernel support UFS labels.  Space on the memstick is not an issue.

Both support that. The issue is makefs(8).
-Nathan