On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 14:29 -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
>
>> and my suggestion is now to just create both partitions when
>> installing to GPT.  Presumably if firmware can handle a GPT disk at
>> all, it won't care whether it happens to contain an ESP unless it's
>> actually trying to boot it using UEFI.
>
> You're making a fatal mistake: assuming some kind of sense on the part
> of firmware authors. ;)

Not really -- I figure that either the firmware is only parsing the
protective MBR (in which case the existence of an ESP won't even be
detectable) or that the firmware actually supports UEFI, in which case
I'd be fairly impressed if it matters.

I suppose I could be wrong.  Sigh.

--Andy
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