From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 9 22:40:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42ED16A469 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:40:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D7213C465 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hx9P9-0005EZ-6A for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:27:31 +0200 Received: from 78-1-71-165.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([78.1.71.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:27:31 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 78-1-71-165.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:27:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:09:31 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4AB3C4C0-0DA1-482F-A4CD-375A53332F29@mac.com> <4D7CDA24-48FE-4319-A320-C8D7165E9EBC@mac.com> <200706092128.l59LSjRs027671@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig26C8CDED32EADCA78F6FB524" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-1-71-165.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) In-Reply-To: <200706092128.l59LSjRs027671@apollo.backplane.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Sender: news Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT - (last) call for action X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:40:13 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig26C8CDED32EADCA78F6FB524 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Matthew Dillon wrote: > But do we have to make slice #1 bootable? Could we also create a > slice #2 in the MBR that points into the GPT's first partition, mar= k > it bootable, and thus be able to put boot1 in the GPT's first parti= tion? > Or will the BIOS fart on the overlapping MBR slices? I've seen old AMI BIOSes confused by this. Don't know if recent ones will take it. --------------enig26C8CDED32EADCA78F6FB524 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGayUhldnAQVacBcgRAh7XAKDg3R+WQLnmJyRrqgLJmzFte0EVHgCfU19x aZ9xDr+fRO3mWJTtYggbo0Q= =mNVP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig26C8CDED32EADCA78F6FB524--