<html><head></head><body>Does gpt require efi?? I know efi doesn't use an mbr partition. But I think gpt can support either efi or mbr. For new hard drive and modern kernel , 3.1+, gpt is what I've used regardless of efi/mbr. <br><br>Note that fdisk on centos 7 still says it doesn't fully support gpt. Not sure what version it's using. I just use gdisk.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 20, 2020 12:23:06 PM EST, David Jackson via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hey Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I just want to make sure I'm on the right page with my understanding. </div><div><br></div><div>In my Arch install script, I first check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. If that does not exist, I assume I do not have a fully compliant EFI bios and I proceed to format the disk with an MBR partition table. If I do have that efivars directory, then I assume my bios is close enough and I proceed to partition the disk as a GPT disk.</div><div><br></div><div>So far, I have not run across a problem with this logic, but what do you guys think? </div><div><br></div><div>TIA</div></div>
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