GELI created on a GPT labelled partition doesn't work 2nd time around...
Andrey V. Elsukov
bu7cher at yandex.ru
Tue Sep 30 14:25:04 UTC 2014
On 30.09.2014 17:54, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> If I repeat the above steps without the initial GPT partition (i.e. against
>> /dev/da0) - I end up with '/dev/da0.eli' - which I can then GPT fine etc.
>
> gpt doesn't let you do gpt in gpt.. which explains why you can't
> create the second level of gpt...
>
> Why do you want/need to partition again? You could possibly use bsd
> as the second layer...
I think bsd in gpt may have problem with booting.
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WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov
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