On 27/06/12 02:06, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte
ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various
tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?
Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's
the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you
need to type commands; I hate that).
If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the
abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time.
I've no idea whether my mainboard can boot from it. It *seems* it has UEFI,
but I'm not really sure.
I think it just depends on your bootloader. Gentoo's grub legacy can
boot from GPT and of course grub2 can too.
I guess I'll just try with a quick Ubuntu install. I suspect though
that the BIOS must be able to actually find Grub in order to boot it,
and it might not be able to.
