From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 08:49:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47D91065673 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:49:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl) Received: from solfertje.student.utwente.nl (solfertje.student.utwente.nl [130.89.167.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900D98FC15 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 08:49:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E005A8050 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hollewijn.internal (hollewijn.internal [10.236.150.4]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDE88034 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Alban Hertroys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:44 +0200 Message-Id: <16DEFF8A-DBBB-4F4F-9C0E-FAFBF444E7FE@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> To: FreeBSD Current Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Thu May 27 10:49:52 2010 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 930,4bfe323010414002918410 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, but, 0.40000, but, 0.40000, From*Alban, 0.40000, preferred+boot, 0.40000, yet+I, 0.40000, Mime-Version*Message, 0.40000, Message-Id*DBBB+4F4F, 0.40000, solve, 0.40000, not+very, 0.40000, Date*May, 0.40000, the+preferred, 0.40000, an, 0.40000, didn't+put, 0.40000, manager+but, 0.40000, from, 0.40000, from, 0.40000, to+boot, 0.40000, to+boot, 0.40000, of, 0.40000, of, 0.40000, have+that, 0.40000, as+I, 0.40000, (my, 0.40000, the+BIOS, 0.40000, the+BIOS, 0.40000, in+short, 0.40000, Received*ESMTP, 0.40000 Cc: Subject: GPT on amd64 and boot managers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 08:49:54 -0000 Good day, Yesterday I finally changed my FreeBSD disk to use GPT instead of a traditional MBR, but I hadn't realised that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't understand GPT partitions (my CURRENT is from early January, if that matters). I used to have that disk set up in the BIOS as the preferred boot disk and the boot manager on it allowed me to boot one of the other disks containing Windows 7 [1]. I googled around and noticed that other people with this problem were told to use Grub as a boot manager, but trying to install that from ports I found out that Grub is only for x86, while I run amd64. So in short, I can't use the FreeBSD boot manager as I have my disk partitioned with GPT, and I can't use Grub as it's not compatible with amd64, yet I do want a boot manager. How do I solve this? Currently I have to choose which OS to boot by changing the boot sequence of my disks in the BIOS - not very convenient. [1] I didn't put a boot manager on the Windows disk on purpose, as Microsoft overwrites it with every reinstall anyway. Alban Hertroys -- Screwing up is an excellent way to attach something to the ceiling. !DSPAM:930,4bfe323010414002918410!