Which distro(s) work with GPT partition table?

ozegoods · 12-12-2010, 04:33 AM

Which distros are known to work with the new GPT partition tables as used with disks over 2TB?

andrewthomas · 12-12-2010, 09:23 PM

I would think that any distro that uses grub2 would work with GPT and most probably have the grub 0.97 patches. I believe that most are compiling support into the kernel now.
Just check for:

Code:

CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y

ozegoods · 12-13-2010, 01:01 AM

How would I check the status of CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION on my installation of Mandriva 2010.1?

andrewthomas · 12-13-2010, 06:11 AM

Is there a config file in the /boot directory?

If not, you could try to

Code:

zcat /proc/config.gz > Kconfig

as root or using sudo and then open the file and search for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION.

ozegoods · 12-13-2010, 05:24 PM

There is a line in /boot/config "CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y".

Today I converted to GPT partition table using gdisk but then Windows 7 would not boot so I had to restore the MBR partitioning.

Kenny_Strawn · 12-13-2010, 06:57 PM

In Ubuntu, try this to help ease the burden:

Code:

cat /boot/config-2.6.37-8-generic | grep "CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION"

This will immediately show you if there is EFI/GPT support.