Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:19:03 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Loader, MBR and the boot process Message-ID: <4B5D6207.9090105@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <1264387282.2869.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <cf9b1ee01001211957j43a9d6a9j3d1e29d19aebf418@mail.gmail.com> <20100122041237.GA22312@gothschlampen.com> <cf9b1ee01001212049u6cffd8abo9efa380a8efa9609@mail.gmail.com> <cf9b1ee01001212102r70b88806m21b167a2aa833362@mail.gmail.com> <20100124092947.B72039@starfire.mn.org> <cf9b1ee01001240759j2476cf3es2babd8b32a90f9aa@mail.gmail.com> <201001242057.o0OKvHUE089237@drugs.dv.isc.org> <1264387282.2869.24.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: >> offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of >> the drive in sectors, or * to have bsdlabel calculate the correct >> offset to use (the end of the previous partition plus one, ignor- >> ing partition `c'. For partition `c', * will be interpreted as >> an offset of 0. The first partition should start at offset 16, >> because the first 16 sectors are reserved for metadata. > > Ok, now this has my attention... My gut feeling right now is that this > is a bug in geom_part_bsd. I don't understand why the label isn't > protected. (Adding -b 16 when adding the swap partition fixes this) > Another project to goes on my list... > > If anyone knows why this is done like this... please share. I presume that this is for purely historic reasons. -- Andriy Gapon
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