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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:29:41 +0400
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: mkimg used to create gpt image, problem booting
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On 24.08.2014 20:59, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Also, in the gptboot man page, it mentions that gptboot can only boot
> on systems with 128 partitions or less.  This seems like an artificial
> restriction.
> Does the gptboot code really enforce this?  Not that I have a system with more
> than 128 partitions. :)

It's because gptboot uses static buffer to read and write GPT table.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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