Re: GUID partitioning

On Friday 29,October,2010 12:02 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Goh Lip<g.lip@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Has anyone tried GUID partitioning (GPT) on a BIOS based system - as
opposed to UEFI?

It would seem to be a drastic and 'quantum leap' to even try this out
and would appreciate feedback on advantages, pitfalls, dangers,
revertiblity, etc - okay, all and any comment.

Yes. You have to remember to create the first partition as a
mini-partition for grub to embed core.img otherwise there's nothing
noticeably different.


Okay..., need a sort-of 'mbr' partition, if I understand you correctly,
then a 'boot-loader' type of partition, swap, then all others.

But, but but ..... :) did you see any advantage, any reason to do this,
no reason to do this.. what does the bios do then..? etc...

Thanks, Tom.
Regards- Goh Lip

ps: googled pages do not 'explain' experiences, just technical how-to's
or what's.



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