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On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote:
> On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
> >>
> >
> There is also the interesting question of actually installing to GPT on the hard disk, which is the default in 9.0. Does this not work on some systems? If so, do we want to blacklist
> them and use a different default partition scheme? Can we identify systems that violate regular PC boot standards and reject GPT? Any data on any of these points would be appreciated.
> >
> I don't think there have been any reports of failure to boot properly formatted GPT yet.

Lenovo T420S and T520, from the links above.  Install GPT on the hard 
drive, try to boot.

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26304
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26759
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=98078