Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:17:26 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default support for GPT [was: Re: More than 8 labels per slice] Message-ID: <20040429111725.GP64306@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20040428210315.GA27365@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> References: <200404270906.54407.current@schmalzbauer.de> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040427203300.51265B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040428012657.GA7257@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <408F11C5.5030403@freebsd.org> <20040428204931.GA72739@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040428210315.GA27365@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:03:15AM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote: > 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... :) SRM doesn't know about partitions itself. Either the table location collides with the SRM bootblocks or its just that our boot software doesn't know about it. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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