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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2017 15:16:57 -0400
From:      Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nested GPT
Message-ID:  <d61a7c52-95b7-827f-354c-446467d3a199@metricspace.net>
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Please note that the boot loaders are unable to handle nested partition
schemes.  If you have any data necessary for the initial boot on such a
partition, it won't work.

On 07/29/2017 08:30, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> On 7/29/17, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net> wrote:
>> i have GPT partitioned SSD, and some partitions are used for bhyve virtual
>> disk containing windows - itself GPT partitioned.
>>
>> whenbhyve is stopped geom doesn't look at this GPT partitioned partition.
>> ggatel is a workaround but can it be changed so nested GPT partitions will
>> work?
> 
> Take a look at geom_map(4).
> 
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