From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 09:25:04 2011 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 982EC106568B for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:25:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de) Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de [130.133.4.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4858FC14 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:25:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtp (envelope-from ) id <1REHXD-0001lT-0w>; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:25:03 +0200 Received: from telesto.geoinf.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.86.198]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.69) with esmtpsa (envelope-from ) id <1REHXC-0002Bd-Pt>; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:25:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4E96AE6E.8070609@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:25:02 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Freie =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Berlin?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johan Hendriks References: <4E96A3BD.3080002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E96A3BD.3080002@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 130.133.86.198 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.x installer and GPT vs geom 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, 13 Oct 2011 09:25:04 -0000 On 10/13/11 10:39, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Hello all. > > I just used the 9.0 B3 installer, and it defaults to GPT, which is nice. > However, and there has been some discussions about it, it would be nice > if the installer warns me that i could get in trouble if i want to use > gmirror and the like. > > Also i find it a little strange that the default mode, GPT in this case > is in some sort not compatible with the other default geom structure. > For a newcomer or for people who use gmirror and glabel on a regular > basis because there somewhat default, it could strike them if they start > using the default GPT. > > It is not logical. > Two default ways to do things that are in a way not compatible. > > So a warning at the installer level could make a lot of users aware of > this, and they can decide what to do, use GPT or go back to the old MBR. > They can start looking at the mailling list and so on to make the right > decision is GPT acceptable for me or not. > And not install FreeBSD and find out later that you could not use your > old gmirror and glabel tactics without corrupting the GPT structure. > > Just my thoughts about this. > > regards, > Johan Hendriks > Shouldn't be there also a warning that GPT can not be used with the FreeBSD native bootselector? I had trouble installing FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT a while ago with default being GPT on my notebook and also wanting a Windows 7/x64 for presentations, selectable via the FreeBSD bootselector. This was possible with MBR, but it seems gone with GPT. Regards, Oliver