On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 23:32 +0100, Thomas Neumann wrote: [...] > Additional question 1) > What is the difference between disklabel:gpt and disklabel:gpt-bios? > Refering to http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Setup-storage 'gpt-bios' > should not be a valid keyword: disklabel:(msdos|gpt)
the gpt-bios disklabel creates an additional partition with the bios_grub flag set, which allows the bios to access the stages of grub that don't fit in the mbr (see below). if your computer has uefi/efi instead of bios then i believe you'd use straight-up gpt. (nb. lacking such a computer, i have not tested this.) > Additional question 2) > Is there a way to make setup-storage create the gpt bios partition as > partition 1 > instead of 3? Rationale: Nothing technical. Just a cosmetical issue: > It looks better > to me. the reasoning from /usr/share/fai/setup-storage/Sizes.pm: # on gpt-bios we'll need an additional partition to store what doesn't fit # in the MBR; this partition must be at the beginning, but it should be # created at the very end such as not to invalidate indices of other # partitions -- andrew bezella <abeze...@archive.org> Internet Archive