On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 17:45:20 +0200 Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 04:36:43PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > Is it likely that "gpt biosboot" can work with evbarm or it is mainly > > designed for x86? > > No, it is x86 specific. I don't know about the quirks of RPi firmware. > Why do you want a GPT disk as boot disk? > > Martin Several reasons 1. Using gpt is much nicer than fdisk + disklabel. There doesn't seem to be a good way to create NetBSD labels, i.e. you need to edit it manually and manually calculate partition offsets and sizes. I'm not using sysinstall or anything like that. With gpt you tell it partition alignment and size and it does it for you. 2. I may want to attach a large 5 TB USB disk which I can use as a boot disk and NFS server storage. If I remember correctly, anything over 2 TB needs to use GPT. OK I could boot from sd card, but USB disk is nicer and may be a bit more robust in terms of storage cells wear etc.
