Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:53:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: J Ronald <followait@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slice and partition in FreeBSD 9.1 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305280950140.45577@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20130528063118.d1d58c3a.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1369714424.25575.YahooMailNeo@web163001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20130528063118.d1d58c3a.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, 28 May 2013, Polytropon wrote: > See this comparison: > > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/geom-glabel.html > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-adding.html There is a little information on the common types here, too: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html#bsdinstall-part-manual > Still you have the choice to use MBR partitioning if this is > a requirement (maybe due to hardware that has problems booting > GPT partitioned media? who knows). Some BIOS systems think GPT partitions mean the system is running UEFI. On those system, MBR is required to boot correctly. I think this is still a problem with the Thinkpad T4xx and T5xx models, possibly others.
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