Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

Matt Thyer matt.thyer at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 19:25:26 UTC 2011


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.


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