Re: Installing to a gpt disk?

Thanks very much. Indeed, when just creating the gpt partitions with 
sysinst, but without actually installing, I see the partitions after 
leaving sysinst.

However, as posted before, after the installation they are all gone. 
Well, kind of. Despite "gpt show" does not recognise any partitions, as 
posted before, if I do not explicitly run "gtp destroy" on that disk I 
cannot install  even with disklabel.

But it could very well be the moment sysinst is installing the boot 
block, that the gpt table goes bust.

  Currently I am also having a second drive, that seems to keep the gpt 
table across boots, but is consistently losing the wedge after a reboot.
In addition, I need to create the wedges manually, "gpt add" will not do 
that on alpha automagically.

I have not been able to newfs a gpt partition without a wedge. That 
would be interesting, but seems not to be documented anywhere. According 
to google, that is.

Generally, this all is just out of curiosity, I have no real practical 
need for gpt and can happily live with disklabel.

Ede


Am 20.03.21 um 18:55 schrieb Martin Husemann:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 06:28:34PM +0100, Ede Wolf wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am just wondering, wether installation on gpt is supported on alpha [for
>> 9.1]? Or, not unlikely, that it is just me not doing it right?
> 
> I don't think alpha has any bootloader that could boot from a non-disklabel
> disk.
> 
> Sysinst should not offer that option, I'll check what is wrong.
> 
> Martin
>