On Tuesday 30 June 2015 14:56:46 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:55:20 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> Actually GPT does not use *all* that space and GRUB could still > >> find out the available unused space. But the GPT partition table > >> could grow and overwrite the beginning of the bootloader, so I > >> guess it was considered safer and cleaner to create a dedicated > >> partition type. I agree with this point of view and wish such a > >> type also existed for MBR partition style. > > > > And entirely admirable idea. But how do you go about updating the > > bios to do that in several Billions of older motherboards? > > You don't need to update the BIOS. All a sensible BIOS has to do is > load the boot code in the MBR, regardless of the partition table > style.
Keyword, Pascal. "sensible". My guess is, in decade old hardware, thats far less than 25%. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506301804.54692.ghesk...@wdtv.com
