System requirements - Was: Out of Space

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 10 August 2016 11:04:31 Tom H wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> 
wrote:
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-August/286767.ht
> >ml
>
> This link has
>
> <begin>
> The only issue I see here is that terabyte-sized drives are usually
> partitioned with GPT, not MBR. With GPT there is no MBR present.
> However, GPT disks are only bootable on UEFI machines. With UEFI, a
> boot disk must have a ~100MB FAT32 system partition, and as I
> understand it, GRUB goes in there, not in the disk's boot sector or in
> the root partition's boot sector.
> </end>
>
> which is incorrect.
>
> You can boot from a gpt-labeled disk on a non-efi system. The MBR
> gap's replaced by a 1MB bios_boot partition for grub to embed an image
> into.
>
> Furthermore, the first sector (the first 512B) is a "protective MBR,"
> which the same as a msdos-labeled disk's MBR. IIRC, grub embeds an
> image into the first 446B just like on an msdos-labeled disk.

Thank you very much Tom H, you just answered a question I asked in a 
different once related thread. Now I will go and set this new drive up 
with GPT style partitions, using the wheezy supplied gparted.  And see 
if I can make staticly addressed networking work with ubuntu-mate 16.04 
LTS one or 10 more times.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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