Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:04 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues. |
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On 03/09/2010 02:46 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > <snip> >> >> As far as partitioning... I believe we should be using GPT partition tables >> where possible. Even on non-EFI systems, it's simply a much better >> partition table format. >> >> -hpa > > GPT can not be used for boot disks in non-EFI systems, right? >
It can. The BIOS doesn't care about the partition table at all -- all it does is load the MBR.
-hpa
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