Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@xxxxxxx> writes:
Afaik, one is unable to boot from gpt partitions.

except on EFI machines (Itanium and Intel Macs), but it is possible to
combine GPT with an MBR such that you get a bootable partition (if
nothing else, GEOM allows you to stick a GPT in a partition or slice)

DES
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