> On Jan 15, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Thorsten Glaser <t...@mirbsd.de> wrote: > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: > >> If you want more than 4 partitions, you need to use extended >> partitions or use a machine that has UEFI. > > Wrong. You can… > > • use MBR extended partitions > • use Linux LVM, or similar tools > • use a GPT, BSD, etc. partition table scheme > > The partitioning scheme is independent of the firmware in use.
Not quite. You won't be able to boot from anything of that unless your firmware supports that. If you want to use GPT and be able to boot from that, you need UEFI. Of course, you don't really care about the firmware once your (modern) operating system is running. > You can boot discs with BSD disklabels and/or Sun disklabels > (SPARC OpenBOOT) on PCs, you can boot GPT-partitioned discs > on EFI and BIOS systems, etc. No, you can't boot from a GPT partition with a classical BIOS. How is a non-UEFI firmware supposed to know anything about GPT partition tables? Adrian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6b945d36-6d6f-47f8-9bd4-f25d43fd5...@physik.fu-berlin.de
