From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 15 22:24:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBAA16A407 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:24:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E9313C46A for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:24:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so1349911uge for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:24:14 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HDuEsF9tdDPjuwYN3TPWssUBG4H5JkXYRF0rXFY/YKcxK3TQJobdrnuD9Ib9yZWyQr5OuJWoxP2dEKTgPflJegFmcAJP5JMkQTm/K5djqGpZQGUEHeUyJcL7h6XlD4lcM9f91SNOUe2l+rGDNF5RrYisZpgiOZKxf4EFIem23Lk= Received: by 10.67.29.12 with SMTP id g12mr6112767ugj.1168898318083; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ktinos.gov ( [85.73.78.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id o30sm7469241ugd.2007.01.15.13.58.36; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:58:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:58:33 +0200 From: Eye of the Beholder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070115235833.7fc7f210@ktinos.gov> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Questions about GPT partitioned disks (on i386/amd64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:24:15 -0000 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.