On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 16:23 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: > On 01/13/2012 04:21 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 15:43 -0500, Timothy Davis wrote: > >> On 01/13/2012 03:23 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >>> Are there any programs available in F16 to produce the partitions to > >>> boot a computer in EFI mode. > >> I have an EFI netbook and installed F16 on it. Worked fine, not sure > >> what you mean. > >> > >> -- > >> Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint and Slackware user > >> Linux counter #386175 > >> > > It is good to know that Fedora can boot using the standard booting > > system.But EFI is designs to use instead of BIOS and an MBR, a special > > partition called a GPT that the system boots from. GPT based systems can > > for example use more that 4 standard partitions and does not use > > extended partitions. It supports several bootloaders other than BIOS. > > > > For more information look at the December 2011 and January 2012 issues > > of Linux Journal. > > or: > > http://www.uefi.org. > I guess the answer to your question is yes, Fedora 16 support EFI booting. I guess, I must be specific. Does it insert a GPT partition where there was none before? How does this affect a machine that had perviously been partitioned without a GPT partition?
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