On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Genre Roger wrote:
When I refer to gpart(8) manpage (9.1 release, updated jan 25,2013), I find
the description of partition types a bit confusing.
Considering the case of a MoBo with "old way" Bios (non UEFI), the only
scheme allowed to get a bootable system is MBR. (Note
Hi,
You're right on the ability to boot off a gpt partition, with a non-uefi
bios. Sorry for the noise concerning that point.
Cheers
Roger
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Genre Roger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I refer to gpart(8) manpage (9.1 release, updated jan 25,2013), I
> find the description of partition types a bit confusing.
>
> Considering the case of a MoBo with "old way" Bios (non UEFI), the only
> scheme allowed to get a boo
Hi,
When I refer to gpart(8) manpage (9.1 release, updated jan 25,2013), I
find the description of partition types a bit confusing.
Considering the case of a MoBo with "old way" Bios (non UEFI), the only
scheme allowed to get a bootable system is MBR. (Note that after
booting, your OS is abl
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, O. Hartmann wrote:
Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with
"gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as
Geom name: ada4
modified: false
state: OK
fwheads: 16
fwsectors: 63
last: 1953525167
first: 63
entries: 4
scheme: MBR
Consumers:
1. Name
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:09+0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
>
> Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with
> "gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as
>
> Geom name: ada4
> modified: false
> state: OK
> fwheads: 16
> fwsectors: 63
> last: 1953525167
> first: 63
> entries:
Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with
"gpart create -s MBR ada4", which is shown as
Geom name: ada4
modified: false
state: OK
fwheads: 16
fwsectors: 63
last: 1953525167
first: 63
entries: 4
scheme: MBR
Consumers:
1. Name: ada4
Mediasize: 1000204886016 (931G)
