Re: Boot CURRENT without efi

[Toomas Soome]

> On 5. juuni 2017, at 20:31, Andy Neustadter  wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I have an older HP desktop that does not support USB boot or UEFI.  Is
> it possible to use this machine with 12-current using GPT?  Any help
> or pointers to info would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

GPT does not require UEFI, BIOS boot will read the pmbr and should behave just 
as with MBR partitioning.

rgds,
toomas


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Re: Boot CURRENT without efi

[Allan Jude]

On 2017-06-05 13:31, Andy Neustadter wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have an older HP desktop that does not support USB boot or UEFI.  Is
> it possible to use this machine with 12-current using GPT?  Any help
> or pointers to info would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
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If your BIOS does not actively interfere, then yes, you can boot from a
GPT partitioned disk in legacy mode, without UEFI.

If it doesn't work, the installer still supports MBR.

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Allan Jude



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Boot CURRENT without efi

[Andy Neustadter]

Hi:

I have an older HP desktop that does not support USB boot or UEFI.  Is
it possible to use this machine with 12-current using GPT?  Any help
or pointers to info would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
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