7.x and 8.0 gpt and gpart GPT PMBR prevents Intel boot
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
Mon Aug 17 16:29:46 UTC 2009
On Jul 10, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Jeff Kletsky wrote:
*snip*
> The PR indicates patches for the CHS issue for gpt. For gpart, the
> code is in /usr/src/sys/geom/part/g_part_gpt.c and, I believe, should
> be modified to read
>
> le16enc(table->mbr + DOSMAGICOFFSET, DOSMAGIC);
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 1] = 0x01; /* shd */
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 2] = 0x01; /* ssect */
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 3] = 0x00; /* scyl */
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 4] = 0xee; /* typ */
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 5] = 0xff; /* ehd */
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 6] = 0xff; /* esect */
> table->mbr[DOSPARTOFF + 7] = 0xff; /* ecyl */
> le32enc(table->mbr + DOSPARTOFF + 8, 1); /* start */
> le32enc(table->mbr + DOSPARTOFF + 12, MIN(last, 0xffffffffLL));
*snip*
> In my opinion, these issues should be considered for inclusion in the
> 8.0-RELEASE -- at the very least, the 0xffffff issue, as it cannot
> easily be resolved from the command line.
This particular change will be in 8.0-RELEASE.
Making the EFI GPT slice active is questionable and such has
not been done. As you said, there's a simple work-around for
it by using fdisk.
7-STABLE needs addressing still.
FYI,
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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com
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