On 04/11/2020 16.41, James Knott wrote:
On 2020-11-04 10:31 a.m., Markus Koßmann wrote:
On 2020-11-03 6:19 p.m., Carlos E.R. wrote:
Why not GPT? All partitions will be primaries and you avoid part of the problem. Works fine (on Linux) even on old computers. Do we still have primary and extended partitions with UEFI??? We can have. It is a limitation of the Windows bootloader that you have to use GPT on the boot disk when booting in UEFI mode. And that booting in legacy BIOS (CSM) mode requires a MBR partition schema. Booting Linux doesn't have these restrictions. And on non bootable disks you can use MBR unless you hit the 2 TiB
Am Mittwoch, 4. November 2020, 15:38:43 CET schrieb James Knott: limit ( even with Windows)
In my computers, I have the choice of legacy or UEFI booting. If I go legacy, I know I will need an extended partition, if I want more than 4 partitions. Does that not disappear with UEFI? Are you saying the boot loader in any recent version of Windows will still require that?
With Linux, you can boot an old machine that only has BIOS with a disk formatted with GPT, because it has a protective MBR that works (the old bios does not understand GPT). The disk should not be over 2 GB, but I have not tried more. Once Linux boots, it can use all the partitions in the disk. Maybe even before booting, I'm not fully sure. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)