Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (57 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Beat Rubischon wrote:

> It looks like all current releases of SuSE and SLES uses MSDOS disklables.
> As more and more storage systems exceedes 2TB, it would be nice to be able
> to create GPT disklables during installation or in Yast without using parted
> manually.
> 
> Booting from a GPT partition should also be possible in a recent system
> using EFI - even x86 based systems are more and more equipped with EFI and a
> BIOS emulator.

Booting is not really a problem even on non-efi systems. I'm not sure about
64 bit sector number support in lilo or grub - that's probably the main
issue.
 
> Did I overlooked such a feature or do I have a feature request for future
> SuSE versions?

I think this is a good idea. Actually I would have expected yast to go for 
gpt on disks > 2TB already.

Interoperability on mixed windows/linux systems could be trying, though.


Steffen
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