From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:17:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiCfpK3o0MgrrHogyXzyNJ2BFQnVda9gPW9B6nkLJSLezg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813090643.3475957e@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
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On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:11:37 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
> > > I have one of those. But I decided to stick with traditional DOS
> > > partitioning style and grub instead of GPT and grub2.
> >
> > I am leaning toward traditional partitioning, but with grub2. Do those
> > two not mix well?
>
> GRUB2 works fine with MBR partition tables. But if you're starting from
> scratch, you may as well use GPT and get rid of the legacy MBR
> limitations and fragility.
>
I'm not dissing GPT...but what's fragile about MBR?
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-10 14:25 [gentoo-user] new installation (ssd, new udev, grub2) Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-10 19:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-10 20:04 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-12 18:20 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-12 18:11 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-12 19:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13 12:52 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-08-13 8:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 12:17 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-08-13 12:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 15:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13 15:55 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-13 17:55 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-08-13 21:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-15 2:33 ` J.Marcos Sitorus
2012-08-15 16:42 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-15 20:48 ` Mick
2012-08-15 21:14 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-15 23:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-16 7:51 ` J.Marcos Sitorus
2012-08-16 14:55 ` Paul Hartman
2012-08-16 15:21 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-08-13 12:44 ` Allan Gottlieb
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