Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

From: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 04:55:23 +0930
On Sep 2, 2011 4:35 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> 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

A hack to transparently ignore GPT partition problems on the install media
might be required.

Or else a utility to fix the memstick partition table.
Received on Thu Sep 01 2011 - 17:25:26 UTC

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