On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Roman Bysh
On 07/06/2010 12:22 PM, Arvin Schnell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:50:55AM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
If so, GPT support for data drives should have been in openSUSE for a long while now. (ie. maybe 11.1) and it not working is clearly a bug somewhere along the line. Possibly specific to the drive.
YaST supports GPT since several (7-8) years. It was added for IA64.
The hard disk in bug #617288 has a MSDOS partition table.
As to GPT boot drives, obviously that requires a EFI compliant system.
This is not entirely true. For GPT the parted on openSUSE also writes an MSDOS partition table to allow booting with grub. It's likely not tested well since most hard disks still have an MSDOS partition table.
ciao Arvin
So when installing a 2T Seagate, the user should have selected GPT. Would this not have wiped out Window 7 64 bit?
A traditional MS-DOS partition table supports up to 2TB (but no more). So it sounds like the GPT reference was a red-herring in this case. (ie. a false lead). fyi: Macs have been using GPT as their primary partition scheme for years, so the basics have been worked out. Booting a GPT drive is clearly something I need to understand better, but they are simply not common yet. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org