UEFI and grub2

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Goh Lip <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 07/31/2011 06:37 PM, Hermann J. Beckers wrote:
>>
>> fdisk -l from the new computer:
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x5ac84f54
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
>> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>> /dev/sda2              13       26237   210645278+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda3           26238       28044    14514727+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/sda4           28045       31692    29296641    5  Extended
>> /dev/sda5           28045       31692    29296640   83  Linux
>
> Hermann, from your fdisk output, I think you're *not* on gpt partitioning.
> Reason - there should not be an extended sda4 there with gpt.

You cannot tell from the output of "fdisk -l" whether it's a GPT disk
or not unless there's a warning at the very beginning of the output
that fdisk doesn't support GPT and that parted should be used (
"parted -l /dev/sdX").