On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >>>> I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte >>>> ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various >>>> tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? >>> >>> >>> Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's >>> the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you >>> need to type commands; I hate that). >> >> >> If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the >> abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time. > > > I've no idea whether my mainboard can boot from it. It *seems* it has UEFI, > but I'm not really sure.
I think it just depends on your bootloader. Gentoo's grub legacy can boot from GPT and of course grub2 can too.
