Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Tuesday 30 June 2015 11:55:20 Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> Actually GPT does not use *all* that space and GRUB could still find >> out the available unused space. But the GPT partition table could grow >> and overwrite the beginning of the bootloader, so I guess it was >> considered safer and cleaner to create a dedicated partition type. I >> agree with this point of view and wish such a type also existed for >> MBR partition style. > > And entirely admirable idea. But how do you go about updating the bios > to do that in several Billions of older motherboards?
You don't need to update the BIOS. All a sensible BIOS has to do is load the boot code in the MBR, regardless of the partition table style. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
