mountroot> while booting r255342 memstick
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 12 02:14:03 UTC 2013
On 09/11/13 20:42, Uzumaki Naruto wrote:
>> If the issue is GPT and MBR, I am quite sure this laptop BIOS doesn't support GPT disk type, because OEM Acer only gave GPT supported BIOS for model that pre-loaded with Windows 8.
> Maybe it helps to clarify, this laptop got no UEFI firmware, I could convert my hard disk to GPT type using diskpart command, but the functionality to boot from GPT partition is unavailable through BIOS.
>
Booting from GPT does not require BIOS support. BIOSes don't (or aren't
supposed to -- some broken ones do) parse the partition table at all.
-Nathan
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