2011/8/21 Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com>: > 2011/8/21 Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_freebsd.org>: >> Hello, Nathan. >> You wrote 21 Á×ÇÕÓÔÁ 2011 Ç., 20:53:22: >> >>> GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now >> š Ok, I was not sure here. > > The Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table states that Windows only supports > GPT boot when the system is a EFI system and is 64-bit Windows, Vista or newer. > Windows-32 will not boot from a GPT disk. > > I know Wikipedia is not always right, but it matches my limited experience. > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Since this is the FreeBSD list, we are talking about booting FreeBSD from GPT partitioned disks. FreeBSD supports booting from both PC/BIOS and EFI Systems. If you want to dual boot between FreeBSD and Windows, then you will need a MBR Partitioned disk. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired > E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Sun Aug 21 2011 - 18:42:46 UTC
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