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On 01/23/2011 04:15 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> On 01/23/11 15:39, walt wrote:
>> Is there a way to make this configuration work? (I've used gdisk to
>> convert DOS partition tables to GPT, so far.)
>
> Yes... make a BIOS Boot Partition!

Well, that's pretty obvious.  The part I missed is that there is actually
is such a partition type ef02, and gdisk knows about it -- but I didn't :)

Thanks for the good info.