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

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:03:15AM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:
> 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... :)

SRM doesn't know about partitions itself.
Either the table location collides with the SRM bootblocks or its
just that our boot software doesn't know about it.

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