Subject: Re: GPT support still needed?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/08/2007 12:49:59
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:21:28AM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> What about systems that don't have, care or know about GPT?
> Will we keep disklabels there, or do you intend to do some strange 
> wrangling at that end instead, to get GPTs in somehow?

On Amiga we use the native partitioning scheme. I think, with 32 bit 
block numbers, but unlimited number of partitions.

Bootblock booting, however, requires that the / partition is within the
first 4GB of the disk.

	-is