On 04/23/2012 05:33 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
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.
FYI:
Fedora 17 Beta uses GPT. and sucessfully boots Live USB's in recent
tests I have done.
1-)Full install of a live .iso to a 8 GB USB; use fedora disk utility
to format: Custom install: GPT(boot) 2; /boot 500; / balance of the USB
no swap.
2-) dd write (to 2 GB USB) also works for the live .iso's
dd if=Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=2M
3-)EFI USB's that boot on a MacBookPro i7
./tools_livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --format --efi --overlay-size-mb 300
--home-size-mb 175 --delete-home --unencrypted-home
Fedora-17-Beta-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso /dev/sdb1
[1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Run_livecd-iso-to-disk_script
Source of script:
[2]http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=hosted/livecd;a=blob;f=tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh;hb=HEAD
Tom Gilliard
satellit_
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.
