[Fedora-livecd-list] Using both EFI and MBR at once on Live USB images

Stewart Adam maillist at diffingo.com
Fri Oct 17 12:00:37 UTC 2008


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> First for the obvious question -- did you change the partition table on
> the USB stick you're testing with to be a GPT partition table?  And then
> had one partition inside that?
> 
> You can't change the partition type of the GPT partition to anything
> other than 'ee' in the MSDOS partition table if you want to keep EFI
> happy with it.
> 
> Multiple partitions might be a workaround, although, yeah, it would kind
> of suck.  Probably worth trying I guess.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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For the tests I just created a new stick with --mactel (it told me
it would erase all data and make a GPT table for me) and from there
I just ran gptsync which said "nothing to do". So essentially, it's
still an unmodified USB stick...

Stewart




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