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Date:      Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:31:39 +0800
From:      Bingzheng Wu <wubingzheng@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   About boot from GPT
Message-ID:  <1bb9b1030903280631x456e52c4qa6e7f16bc57a6dc5@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi men,

FreeBSD 7.1 supports booting from GPT partitions.
I want to know more about it.

Without GPT, MBR reads the Disk Partition Table(DPT), and read the
first sector of the
boot partition.
If map the bootable GPT-partition in to DPT in MBR, then the boot code
in MBR reads
this partition, just like it's a normal partition. What else need to
do to support booting
from GPT partition?

Thanks,
Wu



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