Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 14:56:46 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.
Keyword, Pascal. "sensible". My guess is, in decade old hardware, thats
far less than 25%.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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