9.0-BETA1 installer glithcies (i386)

Kevin Oberman kob6558 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 19:41:43 UTC 2011


2011/8/21 Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org>:
> Hello, Nathan.
> You wrote 21 августа 2011 г., 20:53:22:
>
>> GPT is bootable on all x86 systems, with either EFI or BIOS, and is now
>   Ok, I was not sure here.

The Wikipedia article on GUID Partition Table states that Windows only supports
GPT boot when the system is a EFI system and is 64-bit Windows, Vista or newer.
Windows-32 will not boot from a GPT disk.

I know Wikipedia is not always right, but it matches my limited experience.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
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