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[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

+ Maurice Batey + maurice at bcs.org.uk +
+ Sat Aug 25 12:34:17 CEST 2012 +

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On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:56:43 -0400, andre999 wrote:
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+> GPT is a much cleaner and more secure partition table format.
+> The usual (virtually standard) configuration is space for 128 partitions.
+> No extended partitions are permitted.
+> Partition size is virtually unlimited.  (Limited by the operating
+> system.)
+
+  Sounds good, though probably overkill for the purposes of a netbook!
+
+> Gdisk, in Mageia repos, lets you convert an MBR partition table to 
+> GPT, as long as you make a little space at the end of the drive for
+> the (required) backup table.
+
+  Mmm. Didn't know about that.
+Presumably one would use e.g. Gparted to make the 'little space'.
+    Would need to find a way of getting 'live' Gdisk on a flash drive
+for booting. Is there such a version?
+
+Many thanks for all the clarifications, André! Much appreciated...
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