Compact Flash cards

[Alan Dayley]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM, gm5729 <gm5729 at 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