Re: [issue1407] disklabel64 boot problem

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:47:56AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :What about gpt ? I had the impression it was meant to replace fdisk for big
> :storage volumes...
> 
>     Many BIOSes (most, probably) do not understand GPT slices and
>     can't boot from it.
> 
>     I'm sure this will change but adoption has been very slow.

I was thinking about gpt(8): the program, not the on-disk structure itself.
It is able to create a special /boot mbr slice for old bioses and still address
more than 2TB for all the rest.

Shouldn't this be used instead of fdisk(8) in the future ?

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Francois Tigeot