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| author | nwhitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-07-04 15:55:32 +0000 |
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| committer | nwhitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-07-04 15:55:32 +0000 |
| commit | 6fa381c0bf4943c64c238b23b3b3f85534786588 (patch) | |
| tree | 86e3e90fab77df08e7453d6048f215852172ca90 /sbin/geom | |
| parent | fa1bbb761808bc564ea2d03b9a474917dd6bc915 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-6fa381c0bf4943c64c238b23b3b3f85534786588.zip FreeBSD-src-6fa381c0bf4943c64c238b23b3b3f85534786588.tar.gz | |
After EFI support was added to the installer, it needed to allow boot
partitions of types other than "freebsd-boot" (in particular, "efi").
This allows the removal of some nasty hacks for supporting PowerPC systems,
in particular aliasing freebsd-boot to apple-boot on APM and an IBM-specific
code on MBR.
This changes the installer to use the correct names, which also breaks a
degeneracy in the meaning of "freebsd-boot" that allows the addition
of support for some newer IBM systems that can boot from GPT in addition to
MBR. Since I have no idea how to detect which those systems are, leave
the default on IBM PPC systems as MBR for now.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/geom')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 index 2ae9377..091dc41 100644 --- a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 +++ b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 @@ -553,6 +553,16 @@ for partition types that do not have symbolic names. Symbolic names currently understood and used by .Fx are: .Bl -tag -width ".Cm dragonfly-disklabel64" +.It Cm apple-boot +The system partition dedicated to storing boot loaders on some Apple +systems. +The scheme-specific types are +.Qq Li "!171" +for MBR, +.Qq Li "!Apple_Bootstrap" +for APM, and +.Qq Li "!426f6f74-0000-11aa-aa11-00306543ecac" +for GPT. .It Cm bios-boot The system partition dedicated to second stage of the boot loader program. Usually it is used by the GRUB 2 loader for GPT partitioning schemes. @@ -823,6 +833,14 @@ A partition that contains a NTFS or exFAT filesystem. The scheme-specific type is .Qq Li "!7" for MBR. +.It Cm prep-boot +The system partition dedicated to storing boot loaders on some PowerPC systems, +notably those made by IBM. +The scheme-specific types are +.Qq Li "!65" +for MBR and +.Qq Li "!0x9e1a2d38-c612-4316-aa26-8b49521e5a8b" +for GPT. .It Cm vmware-vmfs A partition that contains a VMware File System (VMFS). The scheme-specific types are @@ -1018,7 +1036,7 @@ Instead, the 800 KBytes bootstrap code image should be written with the .Cm gpart bootcode command to a partition of type -.Cm freebsd-boot , +.Cm apple-boot , which should also be 800 KB in size. .Sh OPERATIONAL FLAGS Actions other than the |
