Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 28/05/2010 13:58 Alban Hertroys said the following: > On 05/27/10 13:33, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 27/05/2010 13:55 Alban Hertroys said the following: >>> 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 changin

Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-28 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 05/27/10 13:33, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 27/05/2010 13:55 Alban Hertroys said the following: 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 co

Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-27 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > I googled around and noticed that other people with this problem > were told to use Grub as a boot manager, but trying to install that > from ports I found out that Grub is only for x86, while I run amd64. Maybe you'll have more luck with

Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alban Hertroys wrote: ... 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

Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-27 Thread Andriy Gapon
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

Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-27 Thread Alban Hertroys
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

Re: GPT on amd64 and boot managers

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Reifenberger
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alban Hertroys wrote: Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:44 +0200 From: Alban Hertroys To: FreeBSD Current Subject: GPT on amd64 and boot managers Good day, Yesterday I finally changed my FreeBSD disk to use GPT instead of a traditional MBR, but I hadn't realised that the Fre