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 fi

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

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

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 differe

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 set

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

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) h

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 >

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