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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Auto-install EFI / BIOS bootloader
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 20:38:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190122203829.5f53e81b@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190122203345.60ba432e@scratchpost.org>

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> (Hybrid MBR/GPT are "dangerous" because they have to be updated in lock-step)

Oops, correction:

GPT always has a dummy MBR partition table which marks everything as "used".
So the MBR will not be updated further.

Grub2 will use GPT (if available) both in the EFI and in the non-EFI case.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-22 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-22 15:50 Auto-install EFI / BIOS bootloader Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-22 17:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-01-22 19:33 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-01-22 19:38   ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2019-01-22 21:50     ` Pierre Neidhardt

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