2011/1/20 Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com>: > On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:37 PM, David Demelier wrote: > [ ... ] >> Why does the installer use GPT partition by default? Do you know that GPT is >> not supported on every (even modern) computer ? > > Sure. Legacy PC/BIOS platforms can work with a hybrid GPT which includes the > legacy or "protective" MBR used by pre-EFI systems; FreeBSD 7 and later, > recent Linux, MacOS X 10.4 and later should be able to boot from disks with > that hybrid format. > > If you need to dual-boot into Windows, however, and your hardware doesn't > provide EFI then you're likely stuck using MBR + PC/BIOS only.
I use a GPT partitioning scheme for FreeBSD and Linux, and manually edited the protective MBR in order to declare MBR partitions on the same sectors than the GPT partition I wanted to use for Windows. Working really nice. There are tools like gptsync which are simpler to use than a low-level MBR editor. Cheers -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ 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"
