Re: Attempt to Move Root
On Sunday 27 December 2015 09:30:38 Nicolas George wrote:
> Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit :
> > There was nothing confusing in Sven's message until you mentionned
> > UEFI in response to "I love the GPT". Why did you start talking
> > about UEFI ?
>
> For the early stage of booting, there is no difference between
> MBR-style partitions (it is more accurate and less ambiguous than
> "MSDOS-style") and GPT-style partitions. There are only sectors
> accessed through a BIOS call. Therefore, if something makes booting
> easier, it's not GPT, it's UEFI.
>
> > Could you please give a concrete example ?
> > AFAIK, GRUB cannot use a partition in MSDOS format to store its core
> > image in the same way as it uses a BIOS boot partition in GPT
> > format.
>
> What makes you say that? There is nothing special about GPT
> partitions, they are intervals of sectors, just as MBR-style
> partitions.
I made the mistake of trying to install a wheezy derivitive on a 2T drive
that had been prepared using GPT partitions. The installer could not
see them at all, so after 2 tries, I just let it go ahead and do its own
partitioning and formatting to ext4. The system has actually worked
well, on a drive that is said to be too big for MBR.
So I would like to be enlightened as to the real differences between the
systems. URL's to the proponents sites would be fine.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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