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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com