From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 10:55:32 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 863121065675 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:55:32 +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 3AFBA8FC0A for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 10:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6898F8034 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 12:55:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hollewijn.internal (hollewijn.internal [10.236.150.4]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93FF98050; Thu, 27 May 2010 12:55:23 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Alban Hertroys In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:55:23 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: References: <16DEFF8A-DBBB-4F4F-9C0E-FAFBF444E7FE@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> To: Michael Reifenberger X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Thu May 27 12:55:30 2010 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 930,4bfe4fa210412299192489 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, To*Michael, 0.40000, Date*55+23, 0.40000, but, 0.40000, but, 0.40000, From*Alban, 0.40000, preferred+boot, 0.40000, just, 0.40000, just, 0.40000, May+2010, 0.40000, May+2010, 0.40000, Mime-Version*Message, 0.40000, To* Subject: Re: 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 10:55:32 -0000 On 27 May 2010, at 12:02, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alban Hertroys wrote: >> 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]. >> > > FreeBSD boots just fine from GPT. > See the examples section of gpart(8). You appear to have missed the point; I was talking about the boot manager - the thing that lets you choose which OS to boot, not the boot loader. I can boot FreeBSD just fine off GPT, but I have to select in the BIOS whether I want to boot FreeBSD or Windows (by means of changing the boot sequence). A working boot manager would be so much more convenient for that. Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. !DSPAM:930,4bfe4fa210412299192489!