[opensuse-autoinstall] GPT disklables?
Hello! 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. Did I overlooked such a feature or do I have a feature request for future SuSE versions? Beat -- \|/ Beat Rubischon <beat@0x1b.ch> ( 0^0 ) http://www.0x1b.ch/~beat/ oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------------------------------- Meine Erlebnisse, Gedanken und Traeume: http://www.0x1b.ch/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
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