amd64/186515: Doesn't boot with GPT when # of entries over than 128.
Andrey V. Elsukov
bu7cher at yandex.ru
Fri Feb 7 12:43:04 UTC 2014
On 06.02.2014 23:30, John Baldwin wrote:
> Using more entries to pad out the table isn't the normal way to handle 4k
> alignment. You can just leave a gap before the start of freebsd-boot. Having
> the sectors "free" vs having them contain zero'd GPT entries doesn't really
> make a difference. One question is when does the boot break? Does it make it
> into the loader and break trying to boot the kernel? Does it make it into
> gptboot and break trying to load the loader?
Hi John,
this is gptboot's restriction. Look at the sys/boot/common/gpt.c.
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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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