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Re: About the GPT

To: Bingzheng Wu <wubingzheng%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: About the GPT
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:22:31 -0400

Bingzheng Wu <wubingzheng%gmail.com@localhost> 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.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost

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- About the GPT
  - From: Bingzheng Wu

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