[nycbug-talk] freebsd and gpt

Alex Pilosov alex at pilosoft.com
Thu Dec 18 20:38:59 EST 2008


On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Miles Nordin wrote:

> >>>>> "il" == Isaac Levy <ike at lesmuug.org> writes:
> 
>     il> EFI uses GPT, BIOS uses a MBR.
> 
> yeah solaris has the same problem and cannot boot off GPT-labeled
> disks (on i386 or sparc).
> 
> though I wouldn't be surprised if Linux found some way to make it work.
it just works, actually, on centos. on debian, you kinda need to do a
dance to get it to work. but it does work.


-alex




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