On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:27:57PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Matt Davis wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 10:16:21PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Is there any sane way to support GPT-MBR hybrid partitioning in parted? > >> This is required for booting on BIOS-based machines (the standard MBR > >>handover protocol doesn't really work for GPT), but GPT is needed to > >>support > 2 TB. > >> > >>At least /boot should be in the MBR; some "other OSes" may need their > >>boot partition MBR-side as well. > > > >hpa, > >While I do not have an answer for you, I have been working, in my free > >time, to > >try to allow Parted to convert from one partition table type to another, > >such as > >gpt to mbr, or vice versa. > > > > Well, the hybrid is really another partitioning scheme, in many ways. > It's a little different than either.
Yep, I am not familiar with that. However, I did notice the opportunity to keep people up-to-date with what is going on regarding similar issue. -Matt _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
