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Date:      Thu, 27 May 2010 12:02:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Michael Reifenberger <mike@reifenberger.com>
To:        Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1005271200030.85386@gw.reifenberger.com>
In-Reply-To: <16DEFF8A-DBBB-4F4F-9C0E-FAFBF444E7FE@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
References:  <16DEFF8A-DBBB-4F4F-9C0E-FAFBF444E7FE@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>

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On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alban Hertroys wrote:

> Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:44 +0200
> From: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>
> To: FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>
> Subject: GPT on amd64 and boot managers
> 
> Good day,
>
> Yesterday I finally changed my FreeBSD disk to use GPT instead of a traditional MBR, but I hadn't realised that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't understand GPT partitions (my CURRENT is from early January, if that matters).
> I used to have that disk set up in the BIOS as the preferred boot disk and the boot manager on it allowed me to boot one of the other disks containing Windows 7 [1].
>

FreeBSD boots just fine from GPT.
See the examples section of gpart(8).

Bye/2
---
Michael Reifenberger
Michael@Reifenberger.com
http://www.Reifenberger.com




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