on 27/05/2010 13:55 Alban Hertroys said the following: > 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.
Right. OTOH I have standard GPT installation (pmbr + gptzfsboot) and during boot I am presented with a choice which _hard disk_ to boot from. I didn't do anything special for that. Not exactly a boot manager, but OK for me. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ 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"
