Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 1 19:05:18 UTC 2011


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


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