On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari_at_ish.com.au> wrote: > On 22/10/09 12:16 PM, Robert Noland wrote: > I don't understand this in the gpart manual: > > "The GEOM_PART_GPT option adds support for the GUID Partition Table (GPT) > found on Intel Itanium computers and Intel-based Macintosh computers." > > Why is GPT restricted to use on Macs and Itanium? As long as BIOS is able to > load the boot sectors, shouldn't it work everywhere? Can you clarify this a > little? As I understand it, Macs and Itanium were just the first adopters of EFI, the new boot method to take over the old school bios / mbr system. GPT is the disk partition part of EFI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table We are in the transition period between the two, with gpt being the future. IIRC there is a 2TB limit for mbr partitioned disks... we will all be running gpt soon enoughReceived on Thu Oct 22 2009 - 15:58:20 UTC
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