https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234708
Bug ID: 234708
Summary: gptboot prompt only supports first nine partitions
Product: Base System
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: misc
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: i...@freebsd.org
The gptboot prompt allows overriding the default choice of disk drive and
partition to load /boot/loader from. The parser only accepts a single-digit
entry for both drive number and partition number. If you attempt to enter, for
example, 0:da(0p21) it doesn't accept it; the default changes to 0:da(0p2) when
the prompt is re-displayed.
The code that parses the string also tries to allow the drive number to be left
off and the unit number becomes the drive number (i.e., da(5p11) would be
equivelent to 5:da(0p11)), except that the code doesn't zero out the unit
number after transposing it to the drive number, so you really get 5:da(5p11)
which is unlikely to ever be right (this is just something I noticed while
looking at parse_cmds() in gptboot.c).
I originally intended to just fix the parsing code, but then I discovered that
its current behavior is undocumented (there is no mention of handling gpt
partitions using a 'pNN' syntax at all, as well as no mention of reinterpreting
unit number as drive number). That means any change to this code at all might
break somebody's existing configuration, and I'm just not going to open that
can of worms today.
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