Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
>
> > First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety.
> >
> > Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2,
> > lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you
> > ultimately be booting off that disk.
> >
> > Then with that data, decide which formatting tool to use. (Others will
> > disagree with this logical progression, which is good as long as they
> > refine there reasons, explicitly.)
>
> I agree up until the last paragraph. You can use gdisk and a GPT whether
> you are using BIO or EFI. The difference is in your first partition. For
> EFI it must be type EF00 and formatted with FAT. For BIOS booting you
> need to start the disk with a small BIOS compatibility partition of type
> EF02. This is 1M here and you don't format or use it, it just has to be
> there.
>
> Regarding the apparent lack of partitions, what does gdisk -l /dev/sde
> show?
And if its not your boot disk, you can still use gpt with no
restrictions which is what I have been doing.
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