> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:00:11 -0600
> From: Dan McGhee <beesn...@grm.net>
> To: LFS Support List <lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org>
> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.4 - Chapter 8.4 - GRUB
>
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> >>>
> >> You and I have similar attitudes, esp with regard to the "M-word." :)
> >> From the
> >> research I did I concluded that the UEFI thing is here to stay--doesn't
> >> necessarily mean "secure boot" either. In fact, that's the first thing I
> >> turned
> >> off with my new machine. What I like is not being limited to four primary
> >> partitions.
> > You can do that in a BIOS based system. You can use GPT without UEFI.
> > I think there may be an issue if you have a boot partition that ends
> > above 2T, but I always recommend a small partition at the beginning for
> > /boot.
> You're right about the GPT without UEFI. [...]
> [...] But, AFIK, the user must *make*
> the partition behave with the GUID's. [...]
Not quite sure what you're meaning there, Dan - apols if/that am being dense:
elab if poss? (No probs of course if not.)
> [...] But, again AFIK, if the firmware
> is MBR based, you're still limited to four primaries.
IIUYC: no; e.g. got an old (a testing-machine) p4 on a supermicro p4spa+ (or
sim) mainboard, running modern blfs/slack1337, with disks partitioned with
GPT and each disk has ~16 partitions. No non-/pre-GPT stuff in sight, no
UEFI stuff in sight, and all goes just fine.
And, again IIUYC re 'primaries': no such concept in GPT, at least not in
pre-GPT sense; and in pre-GPT sense, yes, the spec only allows for 4 primaries
anyhow.
rgds,
akh
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