From 219762ba493854b4902fcc58dff0e91b18d5b24e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:56:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the "bios-boot" partition type. MFC after: 2 weeks --- sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 index 74968b452b6a..d2611357ee4f 100644 --- a/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 +++ b/sbin/geom/class/part/gpart.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 12, 2011 +.Dd January 28, 2011 .Dt GPART 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -509,6 +509,11 @@ utility also allows the user to specify scheme-specific partition types for partition types that do not have symbol names. The symbolic names currently understood are: .Bl -tag -width ".Cm freebsd-vinum" +.It Cm bios-boot +The system partition dedicated to second stage of the boot loader program. +Usually it used by GRUB 2 loader when the partition table is GPT. +The scheme-specific type is +.Qq Li "!21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649" . .It Cm efi The system partition for computers that use the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).