On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 16:00 -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: > You're right about the GPT without UEFI. But, AFIK, the user must *make* > the partition behave with the GUID's. But, again AFIK, if the firmware > is MBR based, you're still limited to four primaries.
No, because under GPT, there's simply no such thing as a "primary" partition. The complex structure of MBR is simply because decades ago, someone decides to use a 2-bit value to identify partitions, restricting disks to four partitions - once this became a problem, they came up with a hack to sub-divide the primaries into logical partitions. But all that is meaningless on GPT, which has a completely different disk format... although technically, the entire GPT disk is a single MBR "primary" partition, for compatibility with BIOS-based systems. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
