Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:54:17 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer glithcies (i386) Message-ID: <201108220954.17541.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CACdU%2Bf8cZgwvF%2BP0g3R9of%2BLzpEEP%2BpVif77RAuUBhdogFU9NQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <927966496.20110820112229@serebryakov.spb.ru> <CAN6yY1sZ2rRz8_wjgosmg1CLcKCaBtrazsCRB9RPjZgs=C_fTA@mail.gmail.com> <CACdU%2Bf8cZgwvF%2BP0g3R9of%2BLzpEEP%2BpVif77RAuUBhdogFU9NQ@mail.gmail.com>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
On Sunday, August 21, 2011 4:42:44 pm Scot Hetzel wrote: > 2011/8/21 Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>: > > 2011/8/21 Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>: > >> Hello, Nathan. > >> You wrote 21 августа 2011 г., 20:53:22: > >> > >>> GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now > >> Ok, I was not sure here. > > > > The Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table states that Windows only supports > > GPT boot when the system is a EFI system and is 64-bit Windows, Vista or newer. > > Windows-32 will not boot from a GPT disk. > > > > I know Wikipedia is not always right, but it matches my limited experience. > > > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table > > Since this is the FreeBSD list, we are talking about booting FreeBSD > from GPT partitioned disks. FreeBSD supports booting from both > PC/BIOS and EFI Systems. > > If you want to dual boot between FreeBSD and Windows, then you will > need a MBR Partitioned disk. Err, FreeBSD only supports booting from EFI on ia64 unless someone added missing bits to the x86 efi loader recently and I missed it. -- John Baldwinhome | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201108220954.17541.jhb>