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
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 changing the boot
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
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Alban Hertroys wrote:
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:49:44 +0200
From: Alban Hertroys dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl
To: FreeBSD Current curr...@freebsd.org
Subject: GPT on amd64 and boot managers
Good day,
Yesterday I finally changed my FreeBSD disk to use GPT instead
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
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
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
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Alban Hertroys
dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl 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.
