On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Siju George <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Arun Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > * Some BIOSes don't support booting from a GPT formatted disk (HP > laptops) > > > > What about BIOSes that come with the old AMD athalon/sepmron systems? > Do they support booting from GPT? > I suspect the old BIOS still reads the first sector of the hard drive and jumps into it. I haven't yet looked into how control is transferred to grub after that. Any mechanism that doesn't look at the legacy partition table should be ok. There is something called a "protective MBR" on GPT systems that is designed to prevent tools from messing with GPT data structures. It seems strange that HP has a patent on this topic! -Arun
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