[Mageia-discuss] UEFI and Secure Boot

[Maurice Batey]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:56:43 -0400, andre999 wrote:

> GPT is a much cleaner and more secure partition table format.
> The usual (virtually standard) configuration is space for 128 partitions.
> No extended partitions are permitted.
> Partition size is virtually unlimited.  (Limited by the operating
> system.)

  Sounds good, though probably overkill for the purposes of a netbook!

> Gdisk, in Mageia repos, lets you convert an MBR partition table to 
> GPT, as long as you make a little space at the end of the drive for
> the (required) backup table.

  Mmm. Didn't know about that.
Presumably one would use e.g. Gparted to make the 'little space'.
    Would need to find a way of getting 'live' Gdisk on a flash drive
for booting. Is there such a version?

Many thanks for all the clarifications, André! Much appreciated...
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/\/\aurice