Re: Parted 3.1 on Samsung XE700T

[Chris Murphy]

On Nov 13, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Andrew Boie <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yes, I am doing legacy boot with a disk that uses a GPT partition table. I 
> don't want to get into the rationale here; I'd like to focus on the issue 
> that other devices don't have problems booting in this way, but the Samsung 
> slate throws a fit.

It could be a firmware bug.

Fedora Project bailed on using GPT by default on BIOS hardware because managing 
the exceptions for BIOS with "bugs" not supporting GPT were too many. So I'd 
test it with MBR to confirm/deny that it in fact doesn't like GPT and that this 
is the source of the problem.

Chris Murphy