Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Andrea Conti <alyf@××××.net>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/\|\| MTBR
Date:	Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:28:45
Message-Id:	`612bb1ac-5923-7971-48b2-b30d48a7561e@alyf.net`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/\|\| MTBR by Peter Humphrey

1	> The BIOS of any machine old enough to be using FAT-style MBR cannot cope with
2	> anything newer, so if you have one, you're stuck with it.
3
4	The BIOS does not care about partitions at all: it just loads and
5	executes whatever is on the first sector of the disk.
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7	As long as you are using a bootloader that understands GPT (such as
8	GRUB2), you can BIOS-boot Linux from a GPT disk just fine.
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10	andrea