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authormarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2010-06-03 13:04:56 +0000
committermarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2010-06-03 13:04:56 +0000
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- Mention that VTOC8 labels are found in Fujitsu SPARC64 machines as well.
- Add information regarding VTOC8 bootrstrap code and how it's handled with r208777 in place. - Document the mapping of partition types to VTOC8 tags. - Add examples for VTOC8 to the respective section. - Eliminated hard sentence breaks. Reviewed by: marcel (slightly buggy version) MFC after: 3 days
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diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
index 66557f3..d1a7b73 100644
--- a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
+++ b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 22, 2010
+.Dd June 3, 2010
.Dt GPART 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ NEC PC-98 computers.
The
.Dv GEOM_PART_VTOC8
option adds support for Sun's SMI VTOC8 label as
-found on UltraSPARC-based computers.
+found on computers based on
+.Tn SPARC64
+and
+.Tn UltraSPARC.
.Pp
Usage of the
.Ns Nm
@@ -221,9 +224,15 @@ The
.Fl p Ar partcode
option specifies a file that contains the bootstrap code intended to be
written to a partition.
+For the VTOC8 scheme, it is a 8192 byte file of which the last 7680 bytes
+are installed as bootstrap code.
The partition is specified by the
.Fl i Ar index
option.
+For the VTOC8 scheme, if the
+.Fl i Ar index
+option is omitted, the bootstrap code is written to all sufficiently large
+partitions.
The size of the file must be smaller than the size of the partition.
.Pp
Additional options include:
@@ -343,10 +352,12 @@ Resize a partition from geom
.Ar geom
and further identified by the
.Fl i Ar index
-option. New partition size is expressed in logical block
-numbers and can be given by the
+option.
+New partition size is expressed in logical block
+numbers and can be given by the
.Fl s Ar size
-option. If
+option.
+If
.Fl s
option is ommited then new size is automatically calculated
to maximum available from given geom
@@ -448,36 +459,36 @@ A
partition dedicated to swap space.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-swap"
-for APM, and
+for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
-for GPT.
+for GPT, and tag 0x0901 for VTOC8.
.It Cm freebsd-ufs
A
.Fx
partition that contains a UFS or UFS2 file system.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-UFS"
-for APM, and
+for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cb6-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
-for GPT.
+for GPT, and tag 0x0902 for VTOC8.
.It Cm freebsd-vinum
A
.Fx
partition that contains a Vinum volume.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-Vinum"
-for APM, and
+for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cb8-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
-for GPT.
+for GPT, and tag 0x0903 for VTOC8.
.It Cm freebsd-zfs
A
.Fx
partition that contains a ZFS volume.
The scheme-specific types are
.Qq Li "!FreeBSD-ZFS"
-for APM, and
+for APM,
.Qq Li "!516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b"
-for GPT.
+for GPT, and 0x0904 for VTOC8.
.It Cm mbr
A partition that is sub-partitioned by a master boot record (MBR).
This type is known as
@@ -543,10 +554,28 @@ future need (e.g.\& from a ZFS partition).
.Pp
Create a 512MB-sized
.Cm freebsd-ufs
-partition that would contain UFS where the system boot from.
+partition that would contain UFS where the system boots from.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
/sbin/gpart add -b 162 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs ad0
.Ed
+.Pp
+Create VTOC8 scheme on
+.Pa da0 .
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+/sbin/gpart create -s VTOC8 da0
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Create a 512MB-sized
+.Cm freebsd-ufs
+partition that would contain UFS where the system boots from.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+/sbin/gpart add -b 0 -s 1048576 -t freebsd-ufs da0
+.Ed
+.Pp
+After having created all required partitions, embed bootstrap code into them.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+/sbin/gpart bootcode -p /boot/boot1 da0
+.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr geom 8
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