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authorjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2007-10-24 21:33:00 +0000
committerjhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2007-10-24 21:33:00 +0000
commit2f8a906c36edd256f39a8d2ef209fef1a548d79e (patch)
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parent81c7dc737f4505dc976b462a40fdd5832e63a765 (diff)
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First cut at support for booting a GPT labeled disk via the BIOS bootstrap
on i386 and amd64 machines. The overall process is that /boot/pmbr lives in the PMBR (similar to /boot/mbr for MBR disks) and is responsible for locating and loading /boot/gptboot. /boot/gptboot is similar to /boot/boot except that it groks GPT rather than MBR + bsdlabel. Unlike /boot/boot, /boot/gptboot lives in its own dedicated GPT partition with a new "FreeBSD boot" type. This partition does not have a fixed size in that /boot/pmbr will load the entire partition into the lower 640k. However, it is limited in that it can only be 545k. That's still a lot better than the current 7.5k limit for boot2 on MBR. gptboot mostly acts just like boot2 in that it reads /boot.config and loads up /boot/loader. Some more details: - Include uuid_equal() and uuid_is_nil() in libstand. - Add a new 'boot' command to gpt(8) which makes a GPT disk bootable using /boot/pmbr and /boot/gptboot. Note that the disk must have some free space for the boot partition. - This required exposing the backend of the 'add' function as a gpt_add_part() function to the rest of gpt(8). 'boot' uses this to create a boot partition if needed. - Don't cripple cgbase() in the UFS boot code for /boot/gptboot so that it can handle a filesystem > 1.5 TB. - /boot/gptboot has a simple loader (gptldr) that doesn't do any I/O unlike boot1 since /boot/pmbr loads all of gptboot up front. The C portion of gptboot (gptboot.c) has been repocopied from boot2.c. The primary changes are to parse the GPT to find a root filesystem and to use 64-bit disk addresses. Currently gptboot assumes that the first UFS partition on the disk is the / filesystem, but this algorithm will likely be improved in the future. - Teach the biosdisk driver in /boot/loader to understand GPT tables. GPT partitions are identified as 'disk0pX:' (e.g. disk0p2:) which is similar to the /dev names the kernel uses (e.g. /dev/ad0p2). - Add a new "freebsd-boot" alias to g_part() for the new boot UUID. MFC after: 1 month Discussed with: marcel (some things might still change, but am committing what I have so far)
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/boot/common')
-rw-r--r--sys/boot/common/ufsread.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/boot/common/ufsread.c b/sys/boot/common/ufsread.c
index ae0b356..715387c 100644
--- a/sys/boot/common/ufsread.c
+++ b/sys/boot/common/ufsread.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ __FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include <ufs/ufs/dinode.h>
#include <ufs/ffs/fs.h>
-#ifdef __i386__
+#if defined(__i386__) && !defined(GPTBOOT)
/* XXX: Revert to old (broken for over 1.5Tb filesystems) version of cgbase
(see sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h rev 1.39) so that i386 boot loader (boot2) can
support both UFS1 and UFS2 again. */
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