Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Gene Heskett a écrit :
> 
> On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:55:20 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>>
>> Actually GPT does not use *all* that space and GRUB could still find
>> out the available unused space. But the GPT partition table could grow
>> and overwrite the beginning of the bootloader, so I guess it was
>> considered safer and cleaner to create a dedicated partition type. I
>> agree with this point of view and wish such a type also existed for
>> MBR partition style.
> 
> And entirely admirable idea.  But how do you go about updating the bios 
> to do that in several Billions of older motherboards?

You don't need to update the BIOS. All a sensible BIOS has to do is load
the boot code in the MBR, regardless of the partition table style.