On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 00:15 -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > Is there a way to actually create a GPT partion on a non IA64 system? > Everything I read from google involving GPT is really only used with > IA64 sytem (oh may it rest in peace). The help in the kernel for EFI > GPT even has "Presently only useful on the IA-64 platform". So there > is a feature that is not useful on any other platform (currently), and > is causing havok. Sure, parted will create it for you if you ask it to. You just have to do so on a non-bootable disk (as your BIOS won't be able to boot from it) Jeremy
