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From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 17:46:58 -0500
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> As far as partitioning... I believe we should be using GPT partition =
tables
> where possible. =A0Even on non-EFI systems, it's simply a much better
> partition table format.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-hpa

GPT can not be used for boot disks in non-EFI systems, right?

Greg