Re: hybrid DOS/GPT and BIOS Boot Partition

2011-01-24 Thread walt
On 01/23/2011 04:15 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: On 01/23/11 15:39, walt wrote: Is there a way to make this configuration work? (I've used gdisk to convert DOS partition tables to GPT, so far.) Yes... make a BIOS Boot Partition! Well, that's pretty obvious. The part I missed is that there is act

Re: hybrid DOS/GPT and BIOS Boot Partition

2011-01-23 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 01/23/11 15:39, walt wrote: Is there a way to make this configuration work? (I've used gdisk to convert DOS partition tables to GPT, so far.) Yes... make a BIOS Boot Partition! Such a partition couldn't hurt with DOS tables, too (I think there isn't a way to mark the partition table type a

Re: hybrid DOS/GPT and BIOS Boot Partition

2011-01-23 Thread walt
On 07/02/2010 05:39 AM, Robert Millan wrote: ... When it comes to GPT, GRUB solved this by using a new instance of the same unmanaged extension of the MBR: the BIOS Boot Partition... Hi, I'm following grub2 again after a long absence, so I'm way behind, sorry. I have grub2 working perfectly (

hybrid DOS/GPT and BIOS Boot Partition

2010-07-02 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, Sorry for breaking the thread, but I just stepped in because I participated in the standarisation of the BIOS Boot Partition mechanism, and in early discussions about this hybrid DOS/GPT protocol which led to the standard being discussed, and I want to clarify something. GRUB implements the B