Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-25 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > > Thank you, Tom and Sven. You're welcome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SwB6Azd5F=9n

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
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Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: >> Tom H wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >>> I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I >>> needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at >>> the end of the disk? >

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Chris Davies wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >>> I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I >>> needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at >>> the end of the disk? >> A gpt disk needs 34 sectors at

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I >> needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at >> the end of the disk? > A gpt disk needs 34 sectors at its beginning; the 0th is th

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >> Debian 7.2 runs fine on UEFI, GPT partitioning works fine. You might >> want to try auto partitioning - there needs to be a 1M space at >> beginning and end of he disk and a 510M partition marked for EFIboot. >

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Debian 7.2 runs fine on UEFI, GPT partitioning works fine. You might > want to try auto partitioning - there needs to be a 1M space at > beginning and end of he disk and a 510M partition marked for EFIboot. I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I fou

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 01:03:25PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install > and run on a UEFI/GPT system. > > >From what I understand, FreeBSD does not yet install and run on a > UEFI/GPT system, and so I assume that Debian kfreeb

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Bret Busby wrote: >Hello. > >I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install and >run on a UEFI/GPT system. > >>From what I understand, FreeBSD does not yet install and run on a >UEFI/GPT system, and so I assume that Debian kfreebsd also does not yet >install and run on a UEF

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 10/22/13 22:03, Bret Busby wrote: I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install and run on a UEFI/GPT system. Yes. I have an Intel DQ67SW motherboard (has UEFI) with 3 TB Seagate hard drives (formatted with GPT), and have run both Squeeze and Wheezy on it. HTH, D

Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-22 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am wondering whether the amd64 versions of Debian 6 and 7 install and run on a UEFI/GPT system. From what I understand, FreeBSD does not yet install and run on a UEFI/GPT system, and so I assume that Debian kfreebsd also does not yet install and run on a UEFI/GPT system, and I am wo