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

[Till Maas]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:22:56PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Till Maas wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:34:59AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:

> > I am also pretty sure that a BIOS does not consider the partition table
> > to boot,
> I can vouch for at least 2 Intel based motherboards which do not boot 
> unless a) there exists a partition table and b) one partition is marked 
> as active

There still will be a partition table, but it will always show a
partition that starts at sector 1. By default it seems not to be marked
as active, but this should be possible. This is then the old style
partition, that contains the new GPT header and partitions.

Regards
Till
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