GEOM_GPT on i386?

Harald Schmalzbauer h at schmalzbauer.de
Thu Sep 9 15:31:40 PDT 2004


Am Freitag, 10. September 2004 00:28 schrieb Brooks Davis:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:17:07AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > Dear GEOM coders,
> >
> > I saw that some time ago GPT was enabled in GENERIC.
> > Is it possible to create GPT labels on i386 and if so, how do I do that?
> > The GPT man page tells about ia64 (only?)
>
> The gpt(8) command should work on any architecture it is installed on
> (!sparc64).

Thank you, but this doesn't neccessarily mean that I can use GPT to boot my 
i386 5.3 box to get rid of the 8-label Limit, does it?
Has anybody succesfully changed to GPT on i386 (by `gpt migrate /dev/ad0`)?

Thanks,

-Harry

>
> -- Brooks
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