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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:00:31 +0200
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly
Message-ID:  <861ws2kdu8.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20060730150054.GA40518@hades.panopticon> (Dmitry Marakasov's message of "Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:00:54 %2B0400")
References:  <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> <20060727202528.GA14954@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <200607282236.k6SMaRlj089446@apollo.backplane.com> <20060729141313.GA43548@hades.panopticon> <17612.48101.830405.56113@canoe.dclg.ca> <20060730150054.GA40518@hades.panopticon>

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Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@mail.ru> writes:
> Afaik, one is unable to boot from gpt partitions.

except on EFI machines (Itanium and Intel Macs), but it is possible to
combine GPT with an MBR such that you get a bootable partition (if
nothing else, GEOM allows you to stick a GPT in a partition or slice)

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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