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

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 30/06/15 02:56 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 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.
That's not true. I have a Dell laptop that needed a BIOS update after I 
switched it to GPT. It wouldn't boot without it. Fortunately the drive 
had the first partition starting at 2048 so converting to GPT was just a 
matter of running gdisk and writing the partition table back to disk.