Am 23.04.2012 14:33, schrieb Doug Laidlaw: > 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. Yes, because there's no Mac with an AMD processor.
> Then there was Windows Service Pack 3 which > caused problems except for Intels. My supplier said to ignore SP3 > anyway. Seems your supplier spreads some FUD there. What problems did it cause? Maybe you were just missing an AHCI driver? > There seem to be a lot of schemes to lock you into hardware, > and they aren't all Windows. > > Doug. >
