Hi, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > > partition indicates that. > > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI).
Not necessarily. It is specified that the EFI System Partition may be marked by a MBR partition table entry of type 0xEF. In practice many EFI implementations look into any partition which contains a FAT filesystem with the CPU-specific boot program in directory \EFI\BOOT. There have been seen some younger Lenovo laptops which won't consider an MBR partition of type 0xEF unless a GPT header block is present on the storage device. > > So the first thing that > > happens is that you will have an active partition set that your BIOS will > > boot (if you have standard bootcode installed in the first sector of the > > disk). Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Legacy BIOS doesn't have an understanding of partitions, it will just > look for a bootloader in the MBR of the mass storage device chosen to > boot from. In theory, yes. In practice there have been seen old HP laptops which don't consider a device if it does not have an MBR partition table with the active/boot flag set to some of the partitions. Have a nice day :) Thomas
