From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 9 22:35:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952E016A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:35:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B10343D58 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:35:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i89Mbtsc003312; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:37:55 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i89Mbte3003311; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:37:55 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:37:55 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Harald Schmalzbauer Message-ID: <20040909223755.GA3143@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200409100017.12733@harryhomeworkstation> <20040909222850.GA29917@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <200409100031.35536@harryhomeworkstation> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200409100031.35536@harryhomeworkstation> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GEOM_GPT on i386? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:35:57 -0000 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:31:35AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > 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 th= at? > > > The GPT man page tells about ia64 (only?) > > > > The gpt(8) command should work on any architecture it is installed on > > (!sparc64). >=20 > Thank you, but this doesn't neccessarily mean that I can use GPT to boot = my=20 > 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`= )? As far as I know, there is no boot support for GPT yet. That's something I would like to see, but it's not there yet. Which feature(s) of GPT do you need? -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBQNtCXY6L6fI4GtQRAt6WAJ4q4nKdhjawixslaDfI30JcEIRIfQCfct3a VoOoKz1Vf9qDyJXy5jNtRyQ= =bhq9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--