Baho Utot wrote: > I have done some (not much) research and it looks like linux only > supports booting to gtp partitions only if using 64 bit os. This is > from the Fedora site. I am going to Arch linux site to see if they say > the same.
What I read was that Windows doesn't support gpt on a 32-bit system. Here is a link I found: http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/GUID_Booting_Guide The example table is outdated. We really don't want the first partition to start at sector 34. gpt does the right thing by default and aligns everything at 1 MiB boundaries. See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table Note there is says: GRUB(2) requires a 1007 KiB BIOS Boot Partition (EF02 type code in gdisk and bios_grub flag in GNU Parted) in BIOS systems to embed its core.img file due to lack of post-MBR embed gap in GPT disks. Runtime GPT support in GRUB(2) is provided by the part_gpt module. The grub partition is raw (unformatted). I think I posted this before. Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2082 4129 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot part 2 4130 208929 100.0 MiB 8300 Linux fs 3 208930 8392737 3.9 GiB 8300 Linux fs 4 8392738 11968424 1.7 GiB 8200 Linux swap 5 11968425 20971486 4.3 GiB 8300 Linux fs -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
