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author | jhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-10-24 21:33:00 +0000 |
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committer | jhb <jhb@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-10-24 21:33:00 +0000 |
commit | 2f8a906c36edd256f39a8d2ef209fef1a548d79e (patch) | |
tree | 2e0ad7e3920a2c896b216cf32db1db922c1f0e29 /sys/sys/gpt.h | |
parent | 81c7dc737f4505dc976b462a40fdd5832e63a765 (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/sys/gpt.h')
-rw-r--r-- | sys/sys/gpt.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/sys/gpt.h b/sys/sys/gpt.h index 0c5fb06..2afd4f2 100644 --- a/sys/sys/gpt.h +++ b/sys/sys/gpt.h @@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ struct gpt_ent { {0x516e7cb8,0x6ecf,0x11d6,0x8f,0xf8,{0x00,0x02,0x2d,0x09,0x71,0x2b}} #define GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD_ZFS \ {0x516e7cba,0x6ecf,0x11d6,0x8f,0xf8,{0x00,0x02,0x2d,0x09,0x71,0x2b}} +#define GPT_ENT_TYPE_FREEBSD_BOOT \ + {0x83bd6b9d,0x7f41,0x11dc,0xbe,0x0b,{0x00,0x15,0x60,0xb8,0x4f,0x0f}} /* * The following are unused but documented here to avoid reuse. @@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ struct gpt_ent { /* * Foreign partition types that we're likely to encounter. Note that Linux * apparently choose to share data partitions with MS. I don't what the - * advantage might be. I can see how sharing swap partitions is advantaous + * advantage might be. I can see how sharing swap partitions is advantageous * though. */ #define GPT_ENT_TYPE_MS_RESERVED \ |