Am 21.12.2014 um 22:48 schrieb Leonid Isaev:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:49:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are usually required by beginners.
No, that was my point: for "advanced" tasks you need neither. I never read the beginners' guide, and don't care how it is formatted. I am just trying to un-confuse people regarding the whole GPT vs MBR thing...
If you want to un-confuse people, you can really simplify the instructions by using only fdisk in the beginner's guide. Then you have the same tool for both GPT and MBR.
This is not true. Some low-end modern machines completely drop legacy BIOS boot. So booting via UEFI is required, and thus GPT is required.
I really doubt this. Are you saying that some vendors on purpose break such things as booting from an external USB key?
I have a firmware that boots from USB fine in UEFI mode, but _only_ if it is formatted with MBR - it won't boot from GPT USB disks. Confusing, right?