On Sunday, August 21, 2011 4:42:44 pm Scot Hetzel wrote: > 2011/8/21 Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com>: > > 2011/8/21 Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_freebsd.org>: > >> Hello, Nathan. > >> You wrote 21 августа 2011 г., 20:53:22: > >> > >>> GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now > >> 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. Err, FreeBSD only supports booting from EFI on ia64 unless someone added missing bits to the x86 efi loader recently and I missed it. -- John BaldwinReceived on Mon Aug 22 2011 - 12:04:57 UTC
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