On Sunday 27 December 2015 09:30:38 Nicolas George wrote: > Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : > > There was nothing confusing in Sven's message until you mentionned > > UEFI in response to "I love the GPT". Why did you start talking > > about UEFI ? > > For the early stage of booting, there is no difference between > MBR-style partitions (it is more accurate and less ambiguous than > "MSDOS-style") and GPT-style partitions. There are only sectors > accessed through a BIOS call. Therefore, if something makes booting > easier, it's not GPT, it's UEFI. > > > Could you please give a concrete example ? > > AFAIK, GRUB cannot use a partition in MSDOS format to store its core > > image in the same way as it uses a BIOS boot partition in GPT > > format. > > What makes you say that? There is nothing special about GPT > partitions, they are intervals of sectors, just as MBR-style > partitions.
I made the mistake of trying to install a wheezy derivitive on a 2T drive that had been prepared using GPT partitions. The installer could not see them at all, so after 2 tries, I just let it go ahead and do its own partitioning and formatting to ext4. The system has actually worked well, on a drive that is said to be too big for MBR. So I would like to be enlightened as to the real differences between the systems. URL's to the proponents sites would be fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>