CURRENT October images do not create a bootable install

Toomas Soome tsoome at me.com
Thu Nov 7 15:28:22 UTC 2019



> On 7. Nov 2019, at 17:23, Daniel Nebdal <dnebdal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:49:52 +0100 gljennjohn at gmail.com said
>> I chose GPT.
> 
> Maybe whoever wrote the EFI/BIOS code in your machine went all-in on
> "Legacy", and it only handles MBR disks (or disks < 2.2TB)?
> After all, it seems like "not booting" would be a standards-compliant
> way for a classic BIOS to handle a GPT disk.
> 

if your system is not booting from GPT disk, it means it is not standards compliant.

rgds,
toomas



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