GPT - (last) call for action

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Sat Jun 9 20:04:57 UTC 2007


Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jun 9, 2007, at 9:22 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>> Another thing that would be nice to have is support for fdisk and
>> disklabel partitions inside geom_part, so it's management utility can be
>> used for both GPT and old style partition management (instead of
>> currently used two tools: fdisk and disklabel).
> 
> I do have to make FreeBSD/ia64 boot on a rx2660, but after that I may
> be able to take a look at it. I know what's there and I know what's
> missing, so I should be able to get the partitioning stuff working

Thanks!

> soon-ish. The bootblock requirements may take little longer, because
> there's where g_part is missing features.

Do you mean installing boot blocks into the "protective MBR" via
geom_part or something else?


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