-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-09-13 19:18, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
В Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:40:08 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:
I was not aware that a classic BIOS could boot a GPT disk - unless it works with a protective MBR and table and boots that.
Classic BIOS has zero knowledge about disk partitioning. It downloads the very first disk sector and jumps to it. So what is supported is determined entirely by content of the first sector.
I thought that code loaded the first sector of the first partition marked as bootable, and to find that, it just asked the bios. You mean that it is not so, that the mbr code has to actively has to search and find which is the bootable partition, and then load its first sector? Well, then it might boot from GPT as well... Then it means that I could use a GPT disk on my plain BIOS computer, and it will boot? I like the idea. I could then have a dozen bootable systems, selected by just changing the bootable mark on the GPT. I can have dozens of primaries on GPT... - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQUiY8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XQZwCfRcjxmLgOUBtbyNsDef+fMwf4 jmUAnjwcajUUKNRe17DbOEj0tuL4mpAt =zaiD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org