On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> besides take it back to the store, I mean.
>
> I have it booted on a USB stick. The internal drive appears to be
> unpartitioned when I do a disklabel -- only c partition reported. fdisk
> does report it as EFI GPT.
>
> I read something about support in the kernel. Is there any hope of say,
> constructing a disklabel by hand and copying the file system over by hand?
> (I have opened up an empty "simple" partition on the disk already.)
You could try with a custom kernel compiled with the GPT option turned on.
GPT support is currently commented out (see
src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC), but it may work...
Ciao,
David
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