On 27 May 2010, at 12:02, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alban Hertroys wrote: >> Good day, >> >> Yesterday I finally changed my FreeBSD disk to use GPT instead of a >> traditional MBR, but I hadn't realised that the FreeBSD boot manager doesn't >> understand GPT partitions (my CURRENT is from early January, if that >> matters). >> I used to have that disk set up in the BIOS as the preferred boot disk and >> the boot manager on it allowed me to boot one of the other disks containing >> Windows 7 [1]. >> > > FreeBSD boots just fine from GPT. > See the examples section of gpart(8).
You appear to have missed the point; I was talking about the boot manager - the thing that lets you choose which OS to boot, not the boot loader. I can boot FreeBSD just fine off GPT, but I have to select in the BIOS whether I want to boot FreeBSD or Windows (by means of changing the boot sequence). A working boot manager would be so much more convenient for that. Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. !DSPAM:930,4bfe4fa210412299192489! _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
