Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:42:27 +0200 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM_GPT on i386? Message-ID: <200409100042.27877@harryhomeworkstation> In-Reply-To: <20040909223755.GA3143@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200409100017.12733@harryhomeworkstation> <200409100031.35536@harryhomeworkstation> <20040909223755.GA3143@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Am Freitag, 10. September 2004 00:37 schrieb Brooks Davis: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:31:35AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > Am Freitag, 10. September 2004 00:28 schrieb Brooks Davis: > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:17:07AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > > Dear GEOM coders, > > > > > > > > I saw that some time ago GPT was enabled in GENERIC. > > > > Is it possible to create GPT labels on i386 and if so, how do I do > > > > that? The GPT man page tells about ia64 (only?) > > > > > > The gpt(8) command should work on any architecture it is installed on > > > (!sparc64). > > > > Thank you, but this doesn't neccessarily mean that I can use GPT to boot > > my i386 5.3 box to get rid of the 8-label Limit, does it? > > Has anybody succesfully changed to GPT on i386 (by `gpt migrate > > /dev/ad0`)? > > As far as I know, there is no boot support for GPT yet. That's > something I would like to see, but it's not there yet. Which feature(s) > of GPT do you need? Hmm, can I make use of GPT without having boot support? Perhaps you have a link handy which illustrates the GPT on disk and the BIOS interactivity. Is it possible to have both, MBR and GPT? I can't imagine. My particular problem is that I want to have every jail in it's own label, but then I have to slice my disk (array), because I have roundabout 20 jails, which makes it impossible to rearrange label-sizes. -Harry > -- Brooks [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBQNxTBylq0S4AzzwRAgV1AJ95iBVtXcTyE+o5IRAYRjNkTXYp2gCfSOO9 uUDS5U/jDWvAlDSdFUZ+aLw= =ogKn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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