Re: USB media install has wrong partition

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

john@dev1ce.com wrote:
>greetings,
>the USB install media for netinst and live both create a dos partition
>table on dd, and cp.  This will result in media that can only be booted
>legacy, as GPT is a requirement for EFI boot.

Sorry, that's incorrect. It's perfectly valid in the UEFI spec for an
EFI System Partition to be a partition with type 0xEF in an
msdos-style partition table, particularly for removable media. Are you
having problems booting on a particular machines?

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