[PATCH] fdisk: Add support for GPT partition type codes

James Bowlin bitjam at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 07:58:47 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:38 AM, Mattias Schlenker said:
> Use GPT on any UEFI system as boot media, and only use MBR on
> drives with less than 2TB that should boot windows on BIOS (64
> bit windows 7 and up should be possible to boot from GPT on
> BIOS - I did not yet test).

Aside from size constraints, etc, all four combinations work:

  o UEFI booting on GPT partitioning
  o UEFI booting on MSDOS partitioning
  o Legacy booting on GPT partitioning
  o Legacy booting on MSDOS partitioning

For example, my live-usb-maker script:
https://github.com/BitJam/live-usb-maker boots via both legacy
and UEFI and it can be set to partition with GPT or MSDOS.


Peace, James


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