>> GPT can not be used for boot disks in non-EFI systems, right? > IIUC, I think any BIOS should be able to do so as it only cares about the code part of MBR > not the partitions and even with GPT the MBR remains the same with the partition part > describing the rest of the while disk as a single chunk containing GPT managed area. The > only problem is the older operating systems (like XP) which don't understand GPT wouldn't be > able to access those partitions. > Thanks. The MBR in a GPT installation doesn't map the first GPT partition, it maps the entire drive drive after the first sector, as well as marking it type 0xEE. The start LBA of the file system is not correctly located in the MBR. I will run some experiments to see if any of the systems on my desk can boot Linux from a GPT. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
