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Bingzheng Wu

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Mar 26, 2009, 5:06:25 AM3/26/09
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Hi men,

I am interested in the project 'GPT aware boot loader support', listed
as a project of GSoC.

It says that NetBSD doesn't support GPT now, but i find a user
program: /sbin/gpt.

Does that mean that, NetBSD can operate the GPT disk layout(by /sbin/gpt),
but can't boot from a disk using GPT? or, it can just boot from GPT by EFI?

Thanks,
Wu

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Perry E. Metzger

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Mar 30, 2009, 2:22:31 PM3/30/09
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Bingzheng Wu <wubin...@gmail.com> writes:
> Does that mean that, NetBSD can operate the GPT disk layout(by /sbin/gpt),
> but can't boot from a disk using GPT? or, it can just boot from GPT by EFI?

I believe the former -- NetBSD can manipulate GPT information but the
boot loaders do not know how to use it.

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