4k sector support (not good?)
Zaphod Beeblebrox
zbeeble at gmail.com
Sun Jul 14 03:56:52 UTC 2019
Wait... are you saying that our gpart isn't properly able to label a 4k
sector disk?
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 11:54 PM Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank-you. At this point, I wouldn't be booting from these disks. Right
> now I'm just trying to "gpart" or label them and get them ZFS formatted...
> so my test rig boots from it's own disks and the target machine boots from
> a different pair of disks.
>
> What I'm after is how to talk to these properly.
>
> On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 2:55 AM Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-07-13 08:35, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> > If you want to boot from a 4K disk you need this patch at least:
>> > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19245
>>
>> Note that this patch must also be installed before trying to create the
>> 4K bootable disk!
>>
>> --HPS
>>
>
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