Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:05:16 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Jason Campbell <jason.lee.campbell@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick Message-ID: <4E5FD76C.5080304@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CACM2%2B-4aU8VqaaKQnAXszFsU-097NLqHGdJP_u5LnbBWVoVtng@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMG0UAh1=Jy_eD5t%2BV_MkhVJrMFoe-OQQFgut1USr6v9CWMj4A@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108302109370.49311@wonkity.com> <CACM2%2B-4aU8VqaaKQnAXszFsU-097NLqHGdJP_u5LnbBWVoVtng@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/01/11 14:00, Matt Thyer wrote: > Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? > > We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades! It uses GPT so that the partition can be labeled, and fstab will not need e.g. da0 hard-coded into it. makefs, which builds the filesystem, does not support UFS labels. -Nathan
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