mkimg used to create gpt image, problem booting

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
>
> Could be. Try the -P option to mkimg. It sets the
> underlying (unexposed) physical sector size while
> still working with the visible 512 bytes sectors.
> The net effect is that for the GPT scheme things
> get aligned to the physical sector size and that
> it also causes the image size to be rounded.
>
> You can also try emitting vmdk directly to see if
> that makes a difference. vmdk also has the side-
> effect of rounding the image to the grain size.


I tried the following experiments:

mkimg -v -f vmdk -s gpt -b test1/boot/pmbr -p
freebsd-boot:=test1/boot/gptboot -p freebsd-ufs:=/tmp/file.img -o
/tmp/foo1.vmdk

When I tried to boot the image in QEMU, I had the same problem as before.
It looks like it started writing the image on block 3, same as before.


I also tried adding the -P flag, with different values like 2048 and 4096.
I ran into the same problem.

Hmm.

--
Craig