John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2007 04:55:35 pm Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> Scott Long wrote: >>> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>>> In message <f0am4t$mmk$1_at_sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes: >>>> >>>>> Currently, the FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of >>>>> MSDOS partitions, and there are a couple of inconvenient things about >>>>> this arrangement: >>>> The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly >>>> as possible. By all means go GPT. >>>> >>> An i386/amd64 bootloader needs to be written that can understand GPT. >>> My understanding is that the ia64 EFI/GPT loader has very few reusable >>> bits. >> It probably crazy idea, but I wonder if it's feasible to have >> "mini-GEOM" layer in loader, so that it's possible to use existing GEOM >> classes codebase there with little or no modifications. > > The loader is the easy part. boot1/2 is the hard one. :( You need both an > EFI loader, and a non-EFI bootstrap to load a non-EFI loader that can grok > GPT for the non-EFI case where we still want to use GPT. > Are there real-world PC BIOS's that understand GPT but aren't EFI-based? ScottReceived on Thu Apr 26 2007 - 20:16:25 UTC
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