Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:05:16 -0500
On 09/01/11 14:00, Matt Thyer wrote:
> Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ?
>
> We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades!

It uses GPT so that the partition can be labeled, and fstab will not 
need e.g. da0 hard-coded into it. makefs, which builds the filesystem, 
does not support UFS labels.
-Nathan
Received on Thu Sep 01 2011 - 17:05:18 UTC

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