Am 21.12.2014 um 22:48 schrieb Leonid Isaev: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:49:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: >> Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable >> for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are >> usually required by beginners. > > No, that was my point: for "advanced" tasks you need neither. I never read the > beginners' guide, and don't care how it is formatted. I am just trying to > un-confuse people regarding the whole GPT vs MBR thing... If you want to un-confuse people, you can really simplify the instructions by using only fdisk in the beginner's guide. Then you have the same tool for both GPT and MBR. >> This is not true. Some low-end modern machines completely drop legacy BIOS >> boot. So booting via UEFI is required, and thus GPT is required. > > I really doubt this. Are you saying that some vendors on purpose break such > things as booting from an external USB key? I have a firmware that boots from USB fine in UEFI mode, but _only_ if it is formatted with MBR - it won't boot from GPT USB disks. Confusing, right?
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