From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 7 11: 7:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080F737B420; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:07:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Red Hack)) id 16YttP-0002dU-00; Fri, 08 Feb 2002 08:07:35 +1300 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:07:36 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen To: Michael Smith Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Support for Win2K Dynamic Disks in -STABLE? In-Reply-To: <200202071854.g17IsA101541@mass.dis.org> Message-ID: X-Message-Flag: "Yummy... a Windows box! Hack! Hack! Hack!" X-X-Sender: juha@vimfuego.saarinen.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Michael Smith wrote: > I would guess that this is using the EFI GPT, which we do not support. Looking at the Intel docos, it seems EFI GPT is for IA-64 systems only. As some Dynamic Volumes do not have partition tables written to them (unless you upgrade them from Basic), it's probably not possible to install FreeBSD on them. It seems the disk info is kept in a Disk Management database instead. Hummm... where's all this documented then? -- Juha Take off every sig! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message