GPT on amd64 and boot managers

[C. P. Ghost]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alban Hertroys
<dalroi at solfertje.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> I googled around and noticed that other people with this problem
> were told to use Grub as a boot manager, but trying to install that
> from ports I found out that Grub is only for x86, while I run amd64.

Maybe you'll have more luck with grub2 instead of legacy grub?

I've compiled the bzr version of grub2 on amd64: all I had to do was
to add -L /usr/lib32 at the end stage of linking.

However, there's currently a bug in grub2 which prevents it from
interpreting and recognizing BSD partitions correctly. It's currently
being worked on.

http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15595.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15644.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15661.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg15715.html

-cpghost.

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