Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:40:21 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <200704261740.22987.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <462928C7.8090400@FreeBSD.org> References: <52686.1177091835@critter.freebsd.dk> <46292461.5090503@samsco.org> <462928C7.8090400@FreeBSD.org>
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On Friday 20 April 2007 04:55:35 pm Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Scott Long wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <f0am4t$mmk$1@sea.gmane.org>, Ivan Voras writes: > >> > >>> Currently, the FreeBSD default is classic BSD partitions on top of > >>> MSDOS partitions, and there are a couple of inconvenient things about > >>> this arrangement: > >> > >> The BSD partitioning should be discontinued as fast and firmly > >> as possible. By all means go GPT. > >> > > > > An i386/amd64 bootloader needs to be written that can understand GPT. > > My understanding is that the ia64 EFI/GPT loader has very few reusable > > bits. > > It probably crazy idea, but I wonder if it's feasible to have > "mini-GEOM" layer in loader, so that it's possible to use existing GEOM > classes codebase there with little or no modifications. The loader is the easy part. boot1/2 is the hard one. :( You need both an EFI loader, and a non-EFI bootstrap to load a non-EFI loader that can grok GPT for the non-EFI case where we still want to use GPT. -- John Baldwin
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