On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:37:33AM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Oh right - I used the original partitionning I guess. I assumed it was > MBR.
Certainly my thinkpad came with windows 7 64bit preinstalled and uses a DOS partition table, not GPT. I suspect if it had come with Windows 8 64bit, it probably would have used GPT. > The reason is that it will fail on newer BIOS, from what I can tell. None I have ever seen. Such a system would be incompatible with Windows XP, and any 32bit Windows version. Would someone really want to release a system that only supported 64bit windows? > That would imply reformatting the whole drive and destroying all the > data, from what I understand. Unless d-i can convert a MBR partition to > GPT? I am sure such a convertion can be done. I wouldn't expect an installer to do it though. It very likely could also break the booting of any already installed OS. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
