Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:44:27 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber <jurgen@ish.com.au>, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk Message-ID: <4AE0E04B.5@andric.com> In-Reply-To: <1256176460.2309.37.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <4ADE995A.8080009@ish.com.au> <1256174188.2309.22.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4ADFB56B.9040607@ish.com.au> <1256176460.2309.37.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On 2009-10-22 03:54, Robert Noland wrote: > As I understand it (never actually tried it), Windows XP/Vista > whatever... Don't understand GPT yet, so you can't really dual boot with > it. For that you probably still need an MBR scheme. This depends on the type of Windows, and whether the system has UEFI. See: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/GPT_FAQ.mspx In short: Windows after XP64 and 2003 server understand GPT for data disks, but not booting; Windows 7 and 2008 also support booting from GPT using UEFI. How well the Windows boot loader handles dual- or multi-boot, I have no idea. It might well have the usual Microsoft behaviour, e.g. overwriting any other boot partitions. ;)
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