On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:00:02 +0200 [email protected] wrote:
> According to wikipedia, linux has been able to boot EFI since the > year 2000. Mageia (and Mandriva before) supports GPT (the partition > tables used on UEFI disks) on MBR disks, since I've been using that > for well over a year. More info at http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI > > Grub supports GPT since version 1.97 patched for GPT (which > Mageia/Mandriva used), and on versions 2.x and up. > Lilo may not work with EFI, but there is Elilo. > http://elilo.sourceforge.net/ > (The last release in 2007) > The 2,2TB limit is for MBR disks. EFI and Linux support much higher > limits. > > Initially there were some problems with diskdrake, but I think that > they have been solved. (The workaround for formatting partitions on > disks with GPT partition tables was using gparted.) > > Regards > One minor distro I tried recently uses GPT by default, but it seems to have its own limitations, e.g. won't run on a USB key. From what I read, MS were going to have a bootloader that locked everything else out. I decided to look at Macintosh a few days ago, and found that it won't run on an AMD processor. Then there was Windows Service Pack 3 which caused problems except for Intels. My supplier said to ignore SP3 anyway. There seem to be a lot of schemes to lock you into hardware, and they aren't all Windows. Doug.
