Re: using GPT support in BIOS boot

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 6 January 2011 17:36, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:06:33AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
>> One thing that I was curious about: whether it's important to start
>> the partition at 64 like you did. ÂThe answer: apparently not. ÂI
>> just let gpt add do its default thing, and it started at 34 and
>> worked fine.
>
> No, it's not, but given the 4KiB-physical-sector disks around these
> days, it's a good idea to make it a multiple of 8 DEV_BSIZE sectors.
> I could have gone with 40, but I figure a partition starting at
> 32KiB looks more elegant than one starting at 20KiB...

Maybe gpt add should be defaulting to 4K alignment?