Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:09:03 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Looking for a GPT-aware boot manager Message-ID: <e71790db0807102009k46eee72ay39d2d5ef8055662@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, I'm attempting quad-boot my notebook with STABLE and CURRENT, both i386 and AMD64. I installed them manually by booting from a thumb drive, partitioning the hard disk and extracting the distributions from ISO images that I had stored on an external hard drive. My disk layout is as follows: ad0p1 boot ad0p2 freebsd, partitioned with disklabel for 7.0/AMD64 ad0p2a 7.0 AMD64 root ad0p2d 7.0 AMD64 /var ad0p2f 7.0 AMD64 /usr ad0p3 freebsd, partitioned with disklabel for 7.0/i386 ad0p3a 7.0 i386 root ad0p3d 7.0 i386 /var ad0p3f 7.0 i386 /usr ad0p4 freebsd, partitioned with disklabel for 7.0/AMD64 ad0p4a 8.0 AMD64 root ad0p4d 8.0 AMD64 /var ad0p4f 8.0 AMD64 /usr ad0p5 freebsd, partitioned with disklabel for 7.0/AMD64 ad0p5a 8.0 i386 root ad0p5d 8.0 i386 /var ad0p5f 8.0 i386 /usr ad0p6 freebsd, partitioned with disklabel for all ad0p6b swap ad0p6d /temp ad0p6e /local The problem now is that I don't have a boot manager capable of selecting a partition to boot from. The FreeBSD boot manager (boot0) does not recognize GPT. I atempted to pass "0:ad(0p3)/boot/loader" to gptboot but had no success. I did a lot of googling and even attempted to read the source code of gptboot but could not figure out how to solve the problem, so any help will be appreciated. -- If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.
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