bin/120990: [patch] support "BIOS Boot" partition type in gpt(8)

[Andriy Gapon]

The following reply was made to PR bin/120990; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org>
To: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, rmh at winomega.com, ae at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/120990: [patch] support "BIOS Boot" partition type in gpt(8)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:46:47 +0200

 on 15/11/2010 17:11 Andrey V. Elsukov said the following:
 > On 15.11.2010 16:57, Andriy Gapon wrote:
 >>
 >> I think there is no reason not add support for this kind of partition.
 >>
 >> Robert,
 >> BTW, just in case, you can create any type of partition using its GUID with gpart.
 >>
 >> Andrey,
 >> what do you think?
 > 
 > 1. This patch is for deprecated now gpt(8).
 
 Oh, I didn't notice that, sorry.
 
 > 2. Without corresponding support in pmbr and boot code it
 > will be only cosmetic change.
 
 I think that it would still be useful when using an alternative boot-chain.
 I think that this request comes from Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project, which does use
 different boot blocks.
 
 -- 
 Andriy Gapon