GUID partitioning

[Dave Howorth]

Goh Lip wrote:
> On Friday 29,October,2010 12:02 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Goh Lip<g.lip at gmx.com>  wrote:
>>> Has anyone tried GUID partitioning (GPT) on a BIOS based system - as
>>> opposed to UEFI?
>
> But, but but ..... :)  did you see any advantage, any reason to do this, 
> no reason to do this.. what does the bios do then..? etc...

FWIW, I've used GPT on a BIOS system but probably not in a way that's
helpful to you. Like Tom, I have a 3 TB disk (actually a RAID) so need
to use GPT. But I'm not brave enough to put my system on it; it's just a
data disk (i.e LVM with various LVs). So the only BIOS that goes near it
is the 3ware BIOS. I've had no problems, just the nuisance of the
various disk tools that don't yet understand GPT.

Cheers, Dave