Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:15:09 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap Message-ID: <4D65328D.3050709@jrv.org> In-Reply-To: <20110222205741.GA34103@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <4D35CFFB.3010302@freebsd.org> <201102211612.51233.josh@tcbug.org> <EA1368DF-9728-4492-B1FC-5F7C2B521DE7@vicor.com> <201102220103.20158.josh@tcbug.org> <D51E46BA-8902-4C42-A785-7EBF9F7A9B44@vicor.com> <20110222205741.GA34103@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 2/22/2011 2:57 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > When that does come, it will probably be driven by BIOS and hardware > vendors dropping support for MBR. MBR is not a BIOS concept. MBR is an OS thing. The BIOS does not care or know what kind of partitioning you use, or if you partition at all. A GPT disk with FreeBSD should boot fine on a quarter-century-old IBM PC/AT, until FreeBSD's "don't support 80286" message. There may be SSDs that know about MBR - I don't know - but otherwise hardware does not care either. >> We've yet to see a "must have" technology that would require us to >> shun sysinstall (as explained earlier, we have no desire whatsoever >> to boot from ZFS, gmirror, geli, GPT, or anything else missing from >> sysinstall). Two vendors have released 3 TB disks and there will be more large disks released before 9.0-RELEASE. sysinstall needs to behave well with them. As stated, it's common to boot from ZFS, mirrors, or GPT disks. These aren't blocker issues now.home | help
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