Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 06:20:15 pm Franck wrote: 2008/10/29 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:39:27 pm Franck wrote: Hi, Thank you for help. I provide you the maximum information about my partitions. Before, I watch the kernel configuration. When

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-30 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:36 AM, John Baldwin wrote: Ok, so it's not a PMBR. My understanding is that a GPT requires the MBR to be a PMBR (only one partition in the 4th slot with a special type of 0xee that covers the whole disk). What this box is doing is trying to make the MBR match the

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported to be a work in progress. It works as far as recognizing disks over

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Franck Royer
John Baldwin a écrit : On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to my fifth partition ? John Baldwin (jhb) has been working on GPT support, but it's still reported

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:52:19 am Franck Royer wrote: John Baldwin a écrit : On Wednesday 29 October 2008 07:42:18 am Lowell Gilbert wrote: Franck Royer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I oblige pcbsd to look the gpt table instead of the msdos one ? How can I access to

GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Franck
Hi, Thank you for help. I provide you the maximum information about my partitions. Before, I watch the kernel configuration. When I fetch the kernel sources, I can see 2 differents configuration files : DEFAULTS and GENERIC. and the line : options GEOM_PART_GPT is present only in

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:40:33 +, Franck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use my knowledge in linux systems, I would say that my actual kernel was compiled with the DEFAULTS conf, which doesn't enable the support of GPT for GEOM. Maybe I'm wrong, my knew kernel is compiling... Without setting

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Franck
2008/10/29 John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 05:39:27 pm Franck wrote: Hi, Thank you for help. I provide you the maximum information about my partitions. Before, I watch the kernel configuration. When I fetch the kernel sources, I can see 2 differents

Re: GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-29 Thread Franck Royer
More news : 1) Boot from the livecd pcbsd - Like I remember, pcbsd shows me only the first four partitions in the installation wizard. That's correspond to the partitions which are synchronised from the gpt by refit. - When I boot to emergency mode, I am able to access to all my

GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-27 Thread Franck Royer
Hi, That's my first real try of a bsd system. I installed pc bsd (the last version) on my macbook. I use refit to sync my dos and gui partition table. I already have many partitions : - fat32 (containing the firmware of the macbook) - hfsplus (mac os X + the files for efi) - ext2 ( /boot of