Hi! I am about to receive a ThinkPad T520 with Intel SSD 320 real soon hopefully.
I wondered whether it might make sense to install with UEFI and GPT. Informations from Arch Wiki hint at that for better alignment and less space waste for SSD: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSD#Using_GPT_-_RECOMMENDED_METHOD https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface Did anyone here try this with any laptop with uefi BIOS? Did it work? Were there problems? I have seen some Debian bug reports that were closed. As far as I understand, I it should work when I Debian installer to select UEFI/GPT somehow and then add an about 1 MiB sized 0xEF02 Bios Boot Partition as GPT doesn't guerantee free space aber (legagy) MBR. I intend to use BTRFS. I hope that it will align automatically, but I am not sure about this. I will use debian unstable, possible even some parts from experimental with kernel 2.6.38 or better 2.6.39 for best Sandybridge graphics support. If interested I report back what I find when I do the Linux installation. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105131833.53986.mar...@lichtvoll.de
