Default support for GPT [was: Re: More than 8 labels per slice]

Wed Apr 28 14:00:55 PDT 2004

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:49:31PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:07:01PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> > I remember there being rumors a year or two ago about
> > Intel trying to sack legacy BIOS and MBR support on x86 entirely
> > and force everyone to use EFI and GPT.
> 
> AMD doesn't have this desire, so please don't assume this for the new
> AMD64 platform.

I wonder in what way will SRM fail with an EFI/GPT-only partition
table... :)

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