Re: [issue1407] disklabel64 boot problem

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

: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

    It has a mbr compat feature but BIOSes often can't deal with it.  i.e.
    it isn't as compatible as was originally intended.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>