GPT as default?
Scott Long
scottl at samsco.org
Fri Apr 20 21:16:23 UTC 2007
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <f0am4t$mmk$1 at sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes:
>
>> Currently, the
>> FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of MSDOS partitions,
>> and there are a couple of inconvenient things about this arrangement:
>
> The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly
> as possible. By all means go GPT.
>
An i386/amd64 bootloader needs to be written that can understand GPT.
My understanding is that the ia64 EFI/GPT loader has very few reusable
bits.
Scott
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