From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 14:00:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448CB16A526 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr (diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC88843D2D for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ntarmos@Noth.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (qmail 24274 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2004 21:00:44 -0000 Received: from noth.ceid.upatras.gr (150.140.143.234) by diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr with SMTP; 28 Apr 2004 21:00:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by Noth.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306D8FC95 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:03:16 +0300 (EEST) Received: from Noth.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Noth [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27185-03 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:03:15 +0300 (EEST) Received: by Noth.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 828CAFBBA; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:03:15 +0300 (EEST) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 00:03:15 +0300 From: Nikos Ntarmos To: current@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20040428210315.GA27365@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> References: <200404270906.54407.current@schmalzbauer.de> <20040428012657.GA7257@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <408F11C5.5030403@freebsd.org> <20040428204931.GA72739@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040428204931.GA72739@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at Noth.ceid.upatras.gr Subject: Re: Default support for GPT [was: Re: More than 8 labels per slice] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:00:55 -0000 On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:49:31PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:07:01PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > I remember there being rumors a year or two ago about > > Intel trying to sack legacy BIOS and MBR support on x86 entirely > > and force everyone to use EFI and GPT. > > AMD doesn't have this desire, so please don't assume this for the new > AMD64 platform. I wonder in what way will SRM fail with an EFI/GPT-only partition table... :) \n\n -- Nikos "Noth" Ntarmos | < ntarmos at ceid dot upatras dot gr > NetCINS Lab. @ C.E.I.D. | [ http://{noth,p2p}.ceid.upatras.gr/ ] U. of Patras - Greece | ( 38.2594N, 21.7428E ) ( 1024D / CF95160A )