On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:32 +0100, Thomas Neumann wrote:
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> Additional question 1)
> What is the difference between disklabel:gpt and disklabel:gpt-bios?
> Refering to http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Setup-storage 'gpt-bios'
> should not be a valid keyword: disklabel:(msdos|gpt)
the gpt-bios disklabel creates an additional partition with the
bios_grub flag set, which allows the bios to access the stages of grub
that don't fit in the mbr (see below). if your computer has uefi/efi
instead of bios then i believe you'd use straight-up gpt. (nb. lacking
such a computer, i have not tested this.)
> Additional question 2)
> Is there a way to make setup-storage create the gpt bios partition as
> partition 1
> instead of 3? Rationale: Nothing technical. Just a cosmetical issue:
> It looks better
> to me.
the reasoning from /usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Sizes.pm:
# on gpt-bios we'll need an additional partition to store what doesn't fit
# in the MBR; this partition must be at the beginning, but it should be
# created at the very end such as not to invalidate indices of other
# partitions
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andrew bezella <[email protected]>
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