Potential F14 feature: Use GPT partition table by default for "wipe complete HD" installations

[John Reiser]

On 03/18/2010 09:25 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Very few BIOSes can boot from a GPT disk.  EFI/UEFI can, as can legacy
> BIOS if you do something ugly like gptsync so the MBR partition table
> and the GPT partition table at least somewhat agree.

Does this mean that the presence of a GPT partition table somehow prevents
the BIOS from reading the first sector into memory, jumping to it,
and afterwards reading other sectors (with LBA48 addresses) into memory?

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