> The BIOS of any machine old enough to be using FAT-style MBR cannot cope with > anything newer, so if you have one, you're stuck with it.
The BIOS does not care about partitions at all: it just loads and executes whatever is on the first sector of the disk. As long as you are using a bootloader that understands GPT (such as GRUB2), you can BIOS-boot Linux from a GPT disk just fine. andrea
