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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: inf3rno on August 30, 2015, 12:57:34 pm
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I have this old motherboard: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3316#ov (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3316#ov)
Is it possible to boot with this motherboard from an SSD, which has 6 or more primary partitions? As far as I know MBR allows only 4 partitions, so I have to use GPT, but I don't know whether the F4 or F5d hybrid-BIOS of this motherboard supports GPT booting. I have currently F4 BIOS, and I don't want to upgrade to F5d, if it is not necessary, since it is a beta BIOS. I want to test different Linux distributions, that's why I need as many partitions as possible.
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Greetings,
Without getting into specifics. In general, a GPT formatted boot drive (windows) needs a UEFI compatible BIOS. Non boot drives (formatted GPT) don't need UEFI BIOS support.
It may work without UEFI with some Linux distros but not all.
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Greetings,
Without getting into specifics. In general, a GPT formatted boot drive needs a UEFI compatible BIOS. Non boot drives (formatted GPT) don't need UEFI BIOS support.
Hi!
I think it's evident, that we are talking about a GPT formatted boot drive.
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Yes, and I was just updating my post.... Multi-boot?... as I said before. Some may or may not work. Its not definitive and is changing rapidly.
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Yes, and I was just updating my post.... Multi-boot?... as I said before. Some may or may not work. Its not definitive and is changing rapidly.
From which BIOS version is GPT supported?
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Is it possible to have GPT boot with this s775 motherboard? No
You have an old motherboard with a legacy BIOS. You can only boot with a MBR partition table. A GPT boot requires newer UEFI BIOS hardware not available on the GA-EP43T-USB3.
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Is it possible to have GPT boot with this s775 motherboard? No
You have an old motherboard with a legacy BIOS. You can only boot with a MBR partition table. A GPT boot requires newer UEFI BIOS hardware not available on the GA-EP43T-USB3.
That's not entirely true. There are so called Hybrid EFI-s, which support GPT booting. I was curious maybe the F5d has this feature. As far as I can tell this technology was used around 2010-2011 maybe earlier. I am afraid you cannot help. I sent a technical question, maybe Gigabyte support answers it.
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I tested F4 BIOS with a GPT HDD, and I successfully installed and booted 6 different Linux distributions. So it is okay. Most ppl confuse UEFI and GPT support, which are completely different things...