On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM, gm5729 <
gm5729@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Which by the by for those that don't know.
> gdisk and gnu Parted are the only partitions you can use on SSD/GPT
> drives or you destroy the block/geometry mappings. There are no such thing
> as logical/extended partitions on them, everything is primary. YOU MUST
> after setting the GPT mapping for the "MBR" set up a min 1MB empty
> partition, no filesystem, flagged as bios_grub or ee, kinda like the 82/83
> schema. GRUB 2 is best on these devices and grub.org recommends strongly
> using a separate /boot, be prepared with a Super Grub2 Disk just in case.
> After that you are set as normal with your favorite distro.
What does GPT mean?
The SSD should not care about what partitioning tool is used. So, at
the moment, I am confused about your statements above. Maybe I don't
understand something.
Alan
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