Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:42:49 +0400 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64/186515: Doesn't boot with GPT when # of entries over than 128. Message-ID: <52F4D4C9.3060902@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <201402061930.s16JU2Pi052495@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <201402061930.s16JU2Pi052495@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On 06.02.2014 23:30, John Baldwin wrote: > Using more entries to pad out the table isn't the normal way to handle 4k > alignment. You can just leave a gap before the start of freebsd-boot. Having > the sectors "free" vs having them contain zero'd GPT entries doesn't really > make a difference. One question is when does the boot break? Does it make it > into the loader and break trying to boot the kernel? Does it make it into > gptboot and break trying to load the loader? Hi John, this is gptboot's restriction. Look at the sys/boot/common/gpt.c. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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