Re: GPT BIOS boot

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Thu, 30 May 2019 11:58:39 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
[booting from RAID1 on gpt]
> We really need the boot code to read the GPT tables, find the right 
FFS/raid partition, and get 
> the offset that way - reading GPT isn't hard, recognising FFS/raid is easy, 
and testing 
> the "bootable" flag is trivial, so (unlike actually dealing correctly with 
> raid in all its possible forms) this would be entirely reasonable to add to 
boot. 

I fully agree, and do not think hardcoding offsets into filesystems is 
something that NetBSD should do.

Cheerio,
hauke

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