GPT on amd64 and boot managers

[Alban Hertroys]

On 05/27/10 13:33, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 27/05/2010 13:55 Alban Hertroys said the following:
>> I can boot FreeBSD just fine off GPT, but I have to select in the BIOS whether
>> I want to boot FreeBSD or Windows (by means of changing the boot sequence). A
>> working boot manager would be so much more convenient for that.
>
> Right.
> OTOH I have standard GPT installation (pmbr + gptzfsboot) and during boot I am
> presented with a choice which _hard disk_ to boot from.  I didn't do anything
> special for that.  Not exactly a boot manager, but OK for me.

I'd be quite happy to have something like that, do you have any idea 
what's doing that for you? I suspect it is your BIOS, as I don't get 
that choice and AFAIK I also have a standard GPT installation - I 
literally followed the examples in man gpart up to the point where 
freebsd-ufs partitions are added.

This is my partition layout:

dalroi:bommel > gpart show ada0
=>       34  625142381  ada0  GPT  (298G)
          34        128     1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
         162    2097152     2  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
     2097314   16777216     3  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
    18874530    1024000     4  freebsd-ufs  (500M)
    19898530    2097152     5  freebsd-ufs  (1.0G)
    21995682   41943040     6  freebsd-ufs  (20G)
    63938722  561203693     7  freebsd-ufs  (268G)


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