16.04 problems - install, inactive/suspend, hard disk

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 14:49:29 UTC 2016


On 14 September 2016 at 16:03, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:35:37 +0200
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> * Only UEFI can boot from GPT
>
> No, that is only true for certain firmwares. Although, a "BIOS boot
> partition" is required for GRUB to boot from a GPT disk on a legacy
> system.
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning#Choosing_between_GPT_and_MBR


Thank you for the information!

A quick Google suggests that this is now only true of Windows. I don't
know about *BSD etc.

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