Hi Andrea!

Am 29.05.2013 11:25, schrieb Andrea Conti:

> The real problem is that while rEFIt/rEFInd, OSX and Linux have no
> problem dealing with a GPT partition table, Windows only supports MBR.
> (Windows 7+ supports GPT partition tables but it can only boot from a
> GPT disk in EFI mode. 

So, let us assume we have in the game:

Windows 7 Ultimate Edition
Gentoo Linux
and Mac OSX (latest version)

then we are all on the same side accessing the same partition table
type, no?!


> Booting Linux works in a similar fashion. You don't even need a
> GPT-aware bootloader: good old GRUB 1 is perfectly up to the task, as
> long as there is an entry for its boot partition in the hybrid MBR. Then
> you can load a kernel with GPT support, and from there it's just a
> standard multiboot setup.
> 
> HTH,
> andrea
> 
> 
> 


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