beaglebone boot from eMMC

[Warner Losh]

> On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:41 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
> 3) Geom rejects BSD labels with more than 255 sectors per track.  The BBB eMMC reads as 1024 sectors per track.   Would it make sense to remove the check in g_part_bsd.c that rejects labels with more than 255 sectors?

This is likely a good idea. In fact, nearly all of the bogus enforcement in g_part can likely be removed / relaxed. They made sense in the 1990’s, but in the world of highly artificial values (that often change based on how the device is connected), they make almost no sense anymore.

Warner

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