Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:33:32 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> To: Juan E Navarro <jnavarro@cs.rice.edu> Cc: "freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MBR/GPT mess :-) [was: Re: Problems with fxp driver] Message-ID: <20030204223332.GA1002@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <3E4023C7.657B8CD5@cs.rice.edu> References: <3E35E4A9.3C8A4845@cs.rice.edu> <20030128021356.GA1228@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E38AC98.E8C6FF17@cs.rice.edu> <20030130045351.GB1574@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E38B494.7250D2AE@cs.rice.edu> <20030130055100.GA1717@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <3E4023C7.657B8CD5@cs.rice.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:34:15PM -0600, Juan E Navarro wrote: > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da0s1a" to /boot/loader.conf, then I can > recompile the kernel and enjoy unattended reboots. I suppose that as > long as nobody tries to use the GPT partitions of the FreeBSD disk then > I'm OK. Is that a safe assumption? FreeBSD, unlike Linux, has unique partition UUIDs. Linux shares the Windows data partition UUID if I'm not mistaken. Thus, any non-broken software should keep the FreeBSD partitions alone, unless they have UFS1 and UFS2 support and explicitly know about the FreeBSD UUIDs. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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