From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 22 22:44:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AAA106566C; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dimitry@andric.com) Received: from tensor.andric.com (cl-327.ede-01.nl.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:7b8:2ff:146::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087468FC15; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:e450:36bc:a2fe:c9e1] (unknown [IPv6:2001:7b8:3a7:0:e450:36bc:a2fe:c9e1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B758C5C43; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:44:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4AE0E04B.5@andric.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:44:27 +0200 From: Dimitry Andric User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091020 Shredder/3.0pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Noland 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> In-Reply-To: <1256176460.2309.37.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jurgen Weber , Aristedes Maniatis Subject: Re: gpart, bsdlabel and fdisk 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, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:29 -0000 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. ;)