From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 17:41:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05151065672 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:41:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33DF28FC1A for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:41:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [IPv6:::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m9THfBbS037214; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Franck Royer Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:32:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <49059437.4000700@free.fr> <200810291101.29795.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <490886B3.4070204@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <490886B3.4070204@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810291332.40102.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/8537/Wed Oct 29 09:26:33 2008 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT Support on Freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:41:18 -0000 On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:52:19 am Franck Royer wrote: > John Baldwin a =E9crit : > > On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > =20 > >> Franck Royer writes: > >> > >> =20 > >>> Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? H= ow > >>> can I access to my fifth partition ? > >>> =20 > >> John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still > >> reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing > >> disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm > >> not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the > >> manual pages. > >> =20 > > > > GPT booting works just fine on 6.x and later. Using the gpt(8) utility= =20 you=20 > > basically do: > > > > # gpt create foo0 > > # gpt boot foo0 > > > > The second command creates a special boot partition in /dev/foo0p1. Yo= u=20 can=20 > > then add partitions: > > > > # gpt add -t ufs foo0 > > # newfs /dev/foo0p2 > > > > gpart(8) in HEAD works similarly. The one thing lacking is that=20 > > sysinstall/libdisk doesn't handle GPT, so there isn't a nice way to do = it=20 > > during installation. > > > > =20 > Ok thank you. But actually, it's not what I'm looking for. >=20 > I use freebsd on a macbook. On this macbook, I already have a gpt, > refit, mac os x and some linux partitions. The problem is freebsd, which > doesn't recognize partitions after the fourth one (but my gentoo linux > see them). >=20 > Then, I suppose freebsd use the mbr partition table (synchronized from > the gpt one using refit) to populate the /dev, but partitions after the > fourth, which are those I want to use, are only indexed in the gpt. >=20 > Finally, I want to force freebsd to use the gpt on my hard drive to > allow it to see others partitions. >=20 > I don't want to destroy my actual gpt, maybe one day, but no right now. >=20 > Tell me if my english is too bad to be understood. >=20 > I just want to precise that I use pcvbsd 7.0, so the kernel > configuration might be different than the freebsd generic one. What device entries do you see in /dev? =2D-=20 John Baldwin