Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: use a 3TB WD Mybook on old etch system kernel 2.6.18-6-486. parted 1.7.1 has bugs. can I use modern parted on other system and move over drive

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>]

On 23:32 Fri 15 Mar     , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Should work...
> 
> Looking at the code for 2.6.18.6 it does have support for
> EFI partition scheme (GPT).
> 
> To confirm if your kernel has support for it search
> EFI_PARTITION in /proc/config.gz or /boot/config
> to see if EFI partition is defined.

 cat /boot/config-2.6.18-6-486 |grep EFI
CONFIG_EFI_VARS=m
CONFIG_EFI=y
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
A1:~# q

ok so I will try it tomorrow. 
Thank you very much
I will report back

Mitchell