From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 11:42:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 989EE106567C for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 721448FC2C for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:42:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 20268 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2008 11:42:23 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Oct 2008 11:42:23 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CCD50822; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:42:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id CE8AF1CD92; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:42:18 -0400 (EDT) To: Franck Royer References: <49059437.4000700@free.fr> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:42:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49059437.4000700@free.fr> (Franck Royer's message of "Mon\, 27 Oct 2008 10\:13\:11 +0000") Message-ID: <44ljw7eig5.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT Support on Freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:42:24 -0000 Franck Royer writes: > Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How > can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over 16TB. It also gets picked up by the geom framework. I'm not sure about booting, although there are tantalizing hints in the manual pages. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/