UEFI Big Drive question

[Stephen Morris]

On 05/10/2014 10:16 AM, benfell at parts-unknown.org wrote:
> Stephen Morris writes:
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>>     From experience I have also found that you can't install the 
>> windows system partition on a GPT device and I thought I read 
>> somewhere that you also can't put Linux /boot on GPT either.
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> I don't know about the rest of it, but *this* sure doesn't match my 
> experience. Windows systems most definitely *do* install on GPT 
> partitions, and in fact the Windows installer will complain if you try 
> to install on a DOS-style partition with a GPT-capable BIOS. Further, 
> Linux /boot most definitely can be on a GPT partition--the notebook 
> I'm writing this on has just this set-up.
I could be wrong about Linux as I haven't tried it, it was just the 
impression I got from net articles, but when I upgraded my system to a 
256GB SSD and 2 2TB hard disks, I tried formatting one of the 2TB hard 
disks to GPT and tried to install Win 8 onto that device, and had the 
installer explicitly tell me it could not install to a GPT device.

regards,
Steve
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