Re: [gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

On Jul 22, 2016 5:43 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > I take it this is a limitation of Apple's firmware as I have set up a > number of uUEFI systems and never had to do this. > It is.

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:53:47 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote: > You need to set the bootable flag in the protective MBR. > > I had to use gdisk and fdisk to make a partition that was bootable by > Apple's EFI. The proper setting does not seem to exist in gdisk, even > though gdisk can read it (oversight by

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

You need to set the bootable flag in the protective MBR. I had to use gdisk and fdisk to make a partition that was bootable by Apple's EFI. The proper setting does not seem to exist in gdisk, even though gdisk can read it (oversight by the author?).

[gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

Hello, I thought I'd post a new thread on this issue. My goals is to have a single default partition scheme on a sata disk that allows me to use either Bios(mbr) or EFI(gpt) systems on these drives. Also the goal is to keep the partition scheme unchanged (boot;root;swap;'usr/local') but be able