Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:42:44 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer glithcies (i386) Message-ID: <CACdU%2Bf8cZgwvF%2BP0g3R9of%2BLzpEEP%2BpVif77RAuUBhdogFU9NQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1sZ2rRz8_wjgosmg1CLcKCaBtrazsCRB9RPjZgs=C_fTA@mail.gmail.com> References: <927966496.20110820112229@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4E513802.9090306@freebsd.org> <569113961.20110821222424@serebryakov.spb.ru> <CAN6yY1sZ2rRz8_wjgosmg1CLcKCaBtrazsCRB9RPjZgs=C_fTA@mail.gmail.com>
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2011/8/21 Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>: > 2011/8/21 Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>: >> Hello, Nathan. >> You wrote 21 =C1=D7=C7=D5=D3=D4=C1 2011 =C7., 20:53:22: >> >>> GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now >> =9A Ok, I was not sure here. > > The Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table states that Windows only su= pports > GPT boot when the system is a EFI system and is 64-bit Windows, Vista or = newer. > Windows-32 will not boot from a GPT disk. > > I know Wikipedia is not always right, but it matches my limited experienc= e. > > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Since this is the FreeBSD list, we are talking about booting FreeBSD from GPT partitioned disks. FreeBSD supports booting from both PC/BIOS and EFI Systems. If you want to dual boot between FreeBSD and Windows, then you will need a MBR Partitioned disk. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired > E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " >
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