GELI created on a GPT labelled partition doesn't work 2nd time around...

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 30.09.2014 17:54, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> If I repeat the above steps without the initial GPT partition (i.e. against 
>> /dev/da0) - I end up with '/dev/da0.eli' - which I can then GPT fine etc.
> 
> gpt doesn't let you do gpt in gpt.. which explains why you can't
> create the second level of gpt...
> 
> Why do you want/need to partition again?  You could possibly use bsd
> as the second layer...

I think bsd in gpt may have problem with booting.

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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov