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Am Mittwoch, 23. Februar 2005 11:24 schrieb Poul-Henning Kamp:

> >+> The c partition is a problem you have to address anyway (and it is
> >+> best addressed by removing the magicness of the c partition
> >+> altogether). [...]
> >
> >It is not going to be removed. We're going to wait for MBR to die.
>
> s/MBR/BSDlabel/

My servers boot from CF-Card so all my hard disks are GPT sliced only.
Will it be possible to boot from GPT disks on i386(amd64)?
Is anyone currently working on that?.
That's what I'm really missing.

Thanks,

-Harry

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