Howdy... Apologies for the somewhat tardy reply; I've been concentrating on getting the hardware to play nice recently and not worrying so much about the software.
--- Tomas Carnecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was gentoo, and I even think I installed it right onto the GPT > disk, > so no migration. But I'm not sure. You just have to look that your > kernel supports GPT. I don't know if the kernel from the gentoo > livecd > supports GPT. > > Also have a look here how to create GPT partitions: > http://www.google.ch/search?q=site%3Ausefulthings.org.uk+gpt > I think I did it like it's shown there, mklabel, mkpart and mount > them. > I don't think I migrated from MSDOS to GPT, because I don't even know > how it'is possible if you have only one disk with the system on it. Bizarre... I will give this a try on a spare system as soon as I can. I thought sure I had read somewhere that typical x86 PC BIOSes just didn't understand the GPT ptbl, and thus couldn't boot from a GPT'ed disk. thanks, Neil __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
