Unable to install dragonfly on GPT drive

Matthew Dillon dillon at backplane.com
Tue Dec 22 10:46:34 PST 2015


It comes down to developer time.  We'd like to do it but it's quite a bit
of work.  We need to update our gpt maintenance utility as well, the
current one is too primitive.

-Matt

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com>
> wrote:
> > The installer can't handle gpt, but DragonFly itself should be able to.
> You
> > would have to install it manually though and to reduce problems I would
> use
> > either the linux gpt partitioner or the microsoft one to create the gpt
> > partition for DFly.  Definitely non-trivial.
>
> Matthew, btw, are there plans GPT to the DragonFly installer/bootloader?
>
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