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Hi Andrea! |
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Am 29.05.2013 11:25, schrieb Andrea Conti: |
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> The real problem is that while rEFIt/rEFInd, OSX and Linux have no |
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> problem dealing with a GPT partition table, Windows only supports MBR. |
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> (Windows 7+ supports GPT partition tables but it can only boot from a |
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> GPT disk in EFI mode. |
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So, let us assume we have in the game: |
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Windows 7 Ultimate Edition |
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Gentoo Linux |
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and Mac OSX (latest version) |
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then we are all on the same side accessing the same partition table |
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type, no?! |
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> Booting Linux works in a similar fashion. You don't even need a |
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> GPT-aware bootloader: good old GRUB 1 is perfectly up to the task, as |
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> long as there is an entry for its boot partition in the hybrid MBR. Then |
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> you can load a kernel with GPT support, and from there it's just a |
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> standard multiboot setup. |
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> HTH, |
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> andrea |
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