freebsd stable - Dec 2009 - install FreeBSD 8 on disk where windows7 made a gpt

hail,

I have Windows7 alone in a disk, and now I'd like to install FreeBSD 8 on
it. when I boot from USB disk, the partitioner says there is no partitions
on it.

then I read about: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot and got to
the fixit part. then gpt show ad10 says also there is no gpt in there.

is there any way to deal with this ?

thanks,

matheus

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On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 20:05 -0200, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> hail,
> 
> I have Windows7 alone in a disk, and now I'd like to install FreeBSD 8
on
> it. when I boot from USB disk, the partitioner says there is no partitions
> on it.
> 
> then I read about: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot and got to
> the fixit part. then gpt show ad10 says also there is no gpt in there.
> 
> is there any way to deal with this ?
There are some fixes in 8-STABLE that I don't think I got into 8.0.
Those fixed reading of GPT headers written by opensolaris.  I haven't
seen the GPT headers written by Win7.  If you want to "dd if=/dev/ad10
of=header-dump.bin bs=512 count=34" and send that to me, I can take a
look at what is written.

robert.
> thanks,
> 
> matheus
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