Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:58:33 +0200 From: Eye of the Beholder <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions about GPT partitioned disks (on i386/amd64) Message-ID: <20070115235833.7fc7f210@ktinos.gov>
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Hello. I have an Intel Pentium4 Cpu with EMT64 and have installed 7.0-CURRENT-200701-amd64-disc1.iso on my 120GB sata disk. I have a second sata disk that i use for transfers. I tried experimenting with GPT on this second disk and i want to ask some questions. Originally, i had setup the disk using gnu parted from my slackware linux. FreeBSD saw the 2 partitions i had fine and i mounted the ext3 partitions f= ine. I saw that each partition type has a uuid that is recognised by. I have made a "swap" partition and a "ufs" partition using the FreeBSD gpt = tool. 1) When i add a gpt partition, do i need to disklabel it like in the mbr wo= rld ? =46rom what i understood since there is a different uuid for swap/ufs partiti= ons, i can use the partition without using disklabel (just use the partition like in the l= inux world) 2) If the disk is used for data then everything is fine but what about boot= ing from a gpt disk ? I have successfully booted slackware linux from the gpt disk using grub2 in= a floppy disk, but i haven't tried boot FreeBSD yet because i am not that keen with FreeBSD yet. 3) Has anyone booted FreeBSD from a gpt disk ? 4) Can i use fdisk (or any other tool) to put the FreeBSD loader on the gpt= ufs partition ? =46rom what i read in www.freebsd.org the boot loader doesn't support gpt (at= the time the web page was written) I am sorry if my questions are already answered, but i haven't found much i= nfo either in the mailing list archives or google. All the info i find is about ia64 which ha= s native efi/gpt support and is different. Thank you for your time.
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