On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Mattias Pantzare <pant...@ludd.ltu.se> wrote: > On a PC EFI is very OS specific as most OS on that platform does not > support EFI.
What you mean by "most OS on PC does not support EFI" and what is "PC platform" anyway? There is some crappy i386 hardware that does not supports EFI booting — this part is true, but so what? — e.g. ACPI is also often screwed (remembering 0.5 year ago shouting on a Slashdot how one dude was trying to boot FreeBSD and it rendered that hardware was designed only for Windows and remembering that OpenSolaris pretends to be Windows in this case). EFI is a label, that differs from the VTOC mainly by supporting larger than 2GB disks (exceptions are SCSI and SSD drives), no information about cylinders, head or sectors is stored there and it is supported on x86 as well. The label is created by default when you format your drive in Solaris, using entire disk. Label is not any OS dependent. The only thing that if it comes to Linux, you have to enable GPT/EFI support in the kernel, because in x86 and amd64 kernels usually it is disabled by default. As of FreeBSD I have no idea about the status (because it is chronical challenge to FreeBSD community when nobody has any idea when things is gonna be done/released there anyway), but you might contact Rui Paulo (rpaulo@) on this topic. Although I don't know how things are moving forward in order to support ZFS on Windows. :-) Take care. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
