Re: addressing > 2 TB storage

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On 6/11/13 9:26 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost> writes:
>
> > There is some boot-from-gpt support;  I'm successfully doing it on one
> > machine where all the disks are GPT.
> >
> > See the "biosboot" option for gpt(8), and this (very terse) wiki page:
> >
> > http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jakllsch/gptboot/
> Cool - glad I was confused.
>
> It would be great to get this into boot(8).
>
> I gather that gptmbr.bin merely reads the GPT label to find the active
> gpt partition and then reads the 2nd-stage bootxx_ from it.
> So one uses gptmbr.bin instead of mbr_bootsel, essentially?

I *think* so - the two or three times I've used it successfully (all but 
one under VMWare :), I will admit to not 100% understanding the details.

I will try to spend some time on boot(8) in the nearish future.

+j