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Re: using GPT support in BIOS boot



On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:06:33AM -0800, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> One thing that I was curious about: whether it's important to start
> the partition at 64 like you did.  The answer: apparently not.  I
> just let gpt add do its default thing, and it started at 34 and
> worked fine.

No, it's not, but given the 4KiB-physical-sector disks around these
days, it's a good idea to make it a multiple of 8 DEV_BSIZE sectors.
I could have gone with 40, but I figure a partition starting at
32KiB looks more elegant than one starting at 20KiB...

        Jonathan Kollasch


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