From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 16:56:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA58310656AA for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:56:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.net) Received: from keltia.freenix.fr (cl-180.mrs-01.fr.sixxs.net [IPv6:2a01:240:fe00:b3::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958E38FC1B for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix/TLS) with ESMTP id 8385D3919E for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:43 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at keltia.freenix.fr Received: from keltia.freenix.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (keltia.freenix.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iRHn2yhQ5u-N for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr (aran.keltia.net [88.191.250.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: roberto) by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix/TLS) with ESMTPSA id 10CD93918C for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:43 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:56:41 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100127165641.GD89897@roberto-al.eurocontrol.fr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: MacOS X / Macbook Pro - FreeBSD 7.2 / Dell D820 SMP User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: booting off GPT partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:56:46 -0000 According to Dan Naumov: > who are telling me that booting off GPT requires UEFI BIOS, which is > supposedly a very new thing and that for example NONE of their current > motherboards have support for this. The Dell T3500 I just configured was announced in March 2009 IIRC and it is booting off GPT just fine. Didn't do anything special for that. Then again, I do not see non GPT support as a deal breaker (even for ZFS). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr In memoriam to Ondine : http://ondine.keltia.net/