GPT boot loader?

[Craig Boston]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:34:02PM -0400, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> GPT is not designed to be a sub-partitioning scheme. It can not be
> used within a partition. As such, absolute block addresses are the
> same as relative block addresses. As such, no mistake has been made
> yet.

Ah, that does make sense.  Does the GPT specification actually say
absolute block addresses?  That would seem to be redundant if the spec
also forbids its use inside a partition.  I can't seem to find the
actual documents for GPT anywhere.

> FreeBSD actually creates a GPT with relative addresses, which means
> that if we allow it to be used to sub-partition partitions, it would
> not have the same problem as the BSD label.

I suppose we're being nonstandard either way, so I'll keep my fingers
crossed that this continues to be the case :)

Thanks for the clarification.

Craig