From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 10:58:19 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 913551065676 for ; Fri, 28 May 2010 10:58:19 +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 46B898FC0C for ; Fri, 28 May 2010 10:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id C162F8051 for ; Fri, 28 May 2010 12:58:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bommel.internal (bommel.internal [10.236.150.2]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304A78050; Fri, 28 May 2010 12:58:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4BFFA1C3.3050901@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:58:11 +0200 From: Alban Hertroys User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100527 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andriy Gapon References: <16DEFF8A-DBBB-4F4F-9C0E-FAFBF444E7FE@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> <4BFE5893.5090609@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4BFE5893.5090609@icyb.net.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Fri May 28 12:58:17 2010 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 930,4bffa1c910415538290380 X-DSPAM-Factors: 27, gpart+show, 0.40000, but, 0.40000, but, 0.40000, presented, 0.40000, From*Alban, 0.40000, 2097152+2, 0.40000, anything+>, 0.40000, just, 0.40000, 18874530+1024000, 0.40000, boot+from, 0.40000, 1024000, 0.40000, 625142381, 0.40000, References* 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: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:58:19 -0000 On 05/27/10 13:33, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 27/05/2010 13:55 Alban Hertroys said the following: >> 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. > > Right. > OTOH I have standard GPT installation (pmbr + gptzfsboot) and during boot I am > presented with a choice which _hard disk_ to boot from. I didn't do anything > special for that. Not exactly a boot manager, but OK for me. I'd be quite happy to have something like that, do you have any idea what's doing that for you? I suspect it is your BIOS, as I don't get that choice and AFAIK I also have a standard GPT installation - I literally followed the examples in man gpart up to the point where freebsd-ufs partitions are added. This is my partition layout: dalroi:bommel > gpart show ada0 => 34 625142381 ada0 GPT (298G) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 2097152 2 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 2097314 16777216 3 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 18874530 1024000 4 freebsd-ufs (500M) 19898530 2097152 5 freebsd-ufs (1.0G) 21995682 41943040 6 freebsd-ufs (20G) 63938722 561203693 7 freebsd-ufs (268G) !DSPAM:930,4bffa1c910415538290380!