Re: kern/45179: NetBSD disklabel does not support devices larger 2 TByte

[Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/45179; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/45179: NetBSD disklabel does not support devices larger 2 
TByte
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:21:36 +0200

 Hi,
 
 OK. If it is possible to boot from that, it would be fine for my current 
 needs.
 The Windows-problem does not hurt me - at least for the systems where I 
 need this.
 
 Is it planned to extend the boot code to boot from a RAID1 setup in gpt 
 in the near future?
 
 At the moment I think this PR can be closed as soon as the bootsupport 
 for raid1 partitions is added to gpt.
 I need this in 5.x as soon as possible for new "productive" systems, but 
 I can do the integration from current into "my" 5.x-version by myself if 
 it is inserted only for 6.x or later. Accedently I've no time to figure 
 out all required changes myself
 
 best regards
 
 W. Stukenbrock
 
 Martin Husemann wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/45179; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > To: Wolfgang Stukenbrock <Wolfgang.Stukenbrock%nagler-company.com@localhost>
 > Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 >      gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Subject: Re: kern/45179: NetBSD disklabel does not support devices larger 2 
 > TByte
 > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:12:06 +0200
 > 
 >  On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:57:14AM +0200, Wolfgang Stukenbrock wrote:
 >  > This means, gpt(8) is not usable on (at least) i386 and amd64 
 >  > architectures for root disks!
 >  
 >  No, that is not true. I recently booted a amd64 machine from a gpt labeld
 >  disk. Firmware in all "recent" machines does handle it just fine.
 >  
 >  Martin
 >  
 > 
 > 
 > 
 
 
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