Re: Booting a computr in EFI mode.

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On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:23 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: 
> On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote:
> >> On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >>> Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to
> >>> boot a computer in EFI mode.
> >> I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure
> >> what you mean.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint and Slackware user
> >> Linux counter #386175
> >>
> > It is good to know that Fedora can boot using the standard booting
> > system.But EFI is designs to use instead of BIOS and an MBR, a special
> > partition called a GPT that the system boots from. GPT based systems can
> > for example use more that 4 standard partitions and does not use
> > extended partitions. It supports several bootloaders other than BIOS.
> >
> > For more information look at the December 2011 and January 2012 issues
> > of Linux Journal.
> > or:
> > http://www.uefi.org.
> I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting.
I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there
was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been
partitioned without a GPT partition?


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