Re: F42 Change Proposal: Install Using GPT on all architectures by Default (system-wide)

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 12:05 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > We can technically do this, but it will cut off a bunch of ARM boards.
> > In particular, we discovered that Raspberry Pis had problems with
> > pure-GPT[1], so I forced pure MBR for now[2] while we figure out if
> > there's even a reasonable path to GPT for ARM images.
>
> The raspberry pi firmware can handle MBR partition tables only.  So
> even when running https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 UEFI firmware you have
> to use MBR, otherwise the UEFI firmware can't be loaded from the
> sdcard:
>
>   kraxel@pi-four ~# sudo fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk1
>   [ ... ]
>   Disklabel type: dos
>   Disk identifier: 0x91e2b054
>
>   Device         Boot   Start     End Sectors Size Id Type
>   /dev/mmcblk1p1         2048 2099199 2097152   1G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>   /dev/mmcblk1p2 *    2099200 4196351 2097152   1G ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
>   /dev/mmcblk1p3      4196352 6293503 2097152   1G 83 Linux
>
> Could very well be that this is an rpi-specific problem (but the
> installed base is big enough that we can't ignore this ...).
>

A hybrid GPT+MBR environment could fix this, couldn't it? In general,
I would prefer to use GPT everywhere, and I know there are
compatibility schemes for supporting MBR "stuff" with GPT.



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