On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:57:21PM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > > >You're confusing BIOS-based boot with msdos partition labels. You can use > >GPT just fine when booting from BIOS (although Intel tries to hide that > >fact by embedding the GPT spec inside the EFI spec). > > I have the hack which combines the two partition labels so I have both > GPT and msdos labels. Which means that my first four partitions (only) > are listed in msdos, and GPT is the really accurate one that MacOS and > Linux use.
I'm not sure if this would confuse GRUB partition-wise. Can it access all partitions? > However, I can't find a way to get into bootloader-land via > BIOS without going through the msdos partitioning mechanism. grub-setup may, too, be confused by this hack. Saving that, you should be able to install GRUB in MBR following the normal procedure, without any need for msdos-style partition table (other than the dummy 0xee one). Would be nice if you can verify GRUB works in both situations. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
