Nicolas George a écrit : > Le septidi 7 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : >> There was nothing confusing in Sven's message until you mentionned UEFI >> in response to "I love the GPT". Why did you start talking about UEFI ? > > For the early stage of booting, there is no difference between MBR-style > partitions (it is more accurate and less ambiguous than "MSDOS-style") and > GPT-style partitions. There are only sectors accessed through a BIOS call.
I agree, but a dedicated space on a partition is a safer location than unallocated disk space or a filesystem. > Therefore, if something makes booting easier, it's not GPT, it's UEFI. *Cough* At least it was supposed to. The more I mess with UEFI implementations, the more I feel dubious about its real advantages. >> AFAIK, GRUB cannot use a partition in MSDOS format to store its core >> image in the same way as it uses a BIOS boot partition in GPT format. > > What makes you say that? My experience and the documentation I read. If you know a way to have GRUB install its core image into an arbitrary partition, I'd love to learn about it.