Hoopsss! I took a direction I was not expected. I was truly expecting to have a nice Chit-Chat and post why not why yes.
Ok, Explanation?
Quick Answer is that this is an extra episode of Discovery Channel "MythBusters".
Situation:
Many masters and user keep saying "Grub4dos is not compatible with GPT". And many will even be more explicit as to say ""Grub4dos 1rst Stage takes MBR + the 1rst 34 sectors that are required by GPT".
Objective:
In this week alone I was wrongly corrected in more than once. So here I am proving those corrections where wrong. As in fact Grub4dos do work very nicely in GPT. Well I had an idea, but just tested my self a few days ago.
Expectation & disappointment:
I was expecting that those that think that way will be defending at least their point. Instead everyone ignore the issue and It seems to me now that most has taken a smart position: "Ohhh we all know that" "What is new?".
A more mature way will be, "I was wrong and I see now you are correct". Now that I say that, way I do not remember a single post in this forum that a user say "I am sorry". Interesting. Well the exception is myself of curse...
Well, I am glad at least we all now are on the same page:
Grub4dos manager can be use on GPT disks.
I will stop this story as it goes no where. But if any want more info just ask.
Notes:
"any practical application"
*We can have our disk formatted as GPT and still using grub4dos and Puppies as we been doing for NONE UEFI Systems.
* Untested by my. But You could have your UEFI Safe USB. And Install grub4dos in the Hybrid Legacy MBR. So when booting on UEFI you get your New Grub2 Menu, But when booting on Legacy you have then the familiar Grub4dos manager.
*As for WHO may use this. Well a user like me! My machine is Legacy so I do not need the a UEFI installation even when it will work on my machine. Why because many of us do not like Grub2 Menus. We love Grub4dos. But now I and build compatible UEFI USB. But Still using my good friendly Grub4dos boot manager on my PC. Do you had such a capability before?
"2TB", Please do not try to confuse people this has nothing to do with legacy Grub,Grub4dos or new Grub2. HDD size disk had cause problems since IBM PC era. From 640K, 1.44MB to 4/8GB. More recently 32/64 GB on Flash memories. Now 2TB.
GPT is not a new thing. But industry did not adopted for years. It was force, when new greater than 2TB HDD show up well we then where force to move on.
Yes MSDOS Partition Tables can NOT handle > 2TB.
But to you SURPRISE and mine...
Before my suggestion NO Puppy user could install a workable Grub4dos on HDD > 2TB.
NOW with this suggestion ALL Puppians can benefit and install Grub4dos on ANY Size HDD on the market today. Yet another "practical application"......
This was not supposed to sound like a Teaching Lesson, it was supposed to be a nice Chit-Chat
Note that different that many here, I do admit I can be wrong as all is new and untested territory.
enrique