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|    wolfgang kern to Paul Edwards    |
|    Re: UEFI GPT    |
|    21 Jan 24 00:56:07    |
      From: nowhere@never.at              On 20/01/2024 16:44, Paul Edwards wrote:       > On 20/01/24 12:16, wolfgang kern wrote:       >       >> my attempt to manually create a complete UEFI startup with KESYS hexwork       >> still encounter many obstacles :)       >>       >> please tell me what I may have missed and what's different to your       >> settings.       >> TIA       >> __       >> wolfgang       >>       >> what I have so far:       >> (almost all is in hex, b/w/q/dq/qq mean 8/16/32/64/128 bit)       >> [LBA_0] MBR:       >> 0000 ... all zero       >       > Are you aware that you can do a UEFI boot       > from an MBR partition?       >       > That might get you further quicker.              yes, but this limits the size of all other partitions to 2^32-1 sectors.       all of my HDs are larger than 2TB (512 byte sectors), so I need GPT.       GPT allow for more than four start partitions (for future expansion).              I cannot remove a single question mark from your help :(       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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