On Sunday 13 November 2011 19:24:19 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 +0000 Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary > > only for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this > > mean? How can I check whether my system is EFI or no, and whether the > > disk is using GPT labels or not? > > All excellent questions which I would have thought deserved at least > a bit of text in the release notes rather than just firing a barrel > full of acronyms at you :-). Yes, that's exactly how I felt when I read that... ;-) > Basically though, if you are using an existing disk that is > already partitioned, you don't have a GPT disk. Apparently > GPT is a brand new partitioning scheme that breaks free of > the old DOS scheme (and is necessary to take advantage of > the disks bigger than 2TB that are getting common these days). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Ah, ok, this was useful to read, thanks! :-) > If you actually needed a bios boot partition and didn't make > one, your system would not boot (I know from experience :-). Ok, so the bottomline in my case is that I have an ordinary 120 GB disk which was previously already partitioned in old-style MBR fashion, so it can also boot the "old way" and doesn't require the bios boot partition. Also, I have nothing to worry about for the future, unless I migrate to a disk bigger than 2 TB (which is not going to happen soon on this laptop...). Ok, that settles that. Thanks for clarifying. Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
