I used to think that older BIOS cannot boot GPT partition, but I now believe the work to handle GPT is done by the MasterBootRecord. And so, it seems to me that there is not much reason to create MBR partition tables today.
I think FreeDOS could do a GPT, without BIOS boot partition, just FreeDOS as the bootable partition. I am unsure but think current FreeDOS would boot fine from a GPT partiton. If the MBR is fine, it will do fine if later an OS install GRUB at the beginning of a partition (which is uncommon). If FreeDOS was to define a GUID for itself, GRUB probing could in the future detect a FreeDOS installation and add it to the menu. And if an "hostile OS" is installed, it will break the booting of FreeDOS, but it should be relatively fixable. It's kind of very late to make such proposition for FreeDOS 1.3... most probably too late. If a MBR partition table already exist... one could suggest to convert it to GPT... but it would be easier to just use it. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
