-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-10-11 05:10, Neil Rickert wrote:
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:43:43 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
But you see, you need UEFI to boot from a GPT disk.
Actually, you don't.
I have booted a 2007 Dell Dimension, using GPT (on an external drive). The BIOS knows nothing of GPT or EFI. But it boots anyway.
In this case, I installed grub2 on the MBR, and I did create a BIOS boot partition. It is grub2 (in the MBR and BIOS boot partition) that knows how to read GPT partition tables and boot the system.
You created manually that "bios boot partition"? Or did YaST suggest it? It is a new thing for me. The wikipedia has an article on it which says that it is a grub2 thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition «The BIOS boot partition is a partition on a data storage device that may be used by legacy BIOS-based systems in order to boot, when the actual boot device contains a GUID Partition Table (GPT). It must be utilized because there is not enough unused space available for the second stages of boot loaders on GPT disks. On MBR-partitioned disks, boot loaders are occupying unused sectors immediately following the Master Boot Record (MBR) for that purpose, while there is no equivalent for those on GPT disks.»
A reason that you might want to do this, would be to handle disks larger than 2T, which can exceed the capability of MBR partition tables.
Or to have several "primary" partitions, several of them bootable, not only 4. Yes, it is something I'd like to do. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQ5A7AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WGqQCffh9DzyfJIwYoajqyzPDFHOuQ Z9AAoJK6bLmqKk1CG7AUy2YWhr9jLNtn =711C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org