gpt disk label and /boot

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Thu Mar 5 14:04:37 CET 2009


>
>>
>> Most probably, this is currently _not_ the case (assuming you want the
>> BIOS-style version and not EFI). I guess a simple "parted print" should help you
>> verify this. If the partition is set to bios_grub, you are fine; if it has the
>> flag "boot", it's an EFI boot volume. I think this will best be fixed by adding
>> a specific disklabel "gpt-bios" to setup-storage that deals with such specifics.
>> Doing so is not really hard, I would just like to make sure that it will see
>> some testing. If you're willing to dive into this, I'd happily prepare a patch
>> in the next few days.
>>
>>   
>>
>
> yes i can test it if this is in the next days no problem !
>
> yes instead of primary for special case:
>
> gpt-bios
> gpt-gui:21686148-6449-6E6F-744E-656564454649
>
> so we have a shortcut for the gpt-bios and can give any gid we want, dont know if this is usefull but...
>

For now, I've only added the gpt-bios stuff. Could you please try
3.2.18+experimental2?

Thanks,
Michael

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