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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   
      
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