From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:52:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bjd5gkt.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef39265d0601241500g4d39a56bwc033109e5bd0df0c@mail.gmail.com> (Poe Chen's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:00:26 -0500")
Poe Chen <poe.poechen@gmail.com> writes:
> Just want to report that I've successfully boot from floppy with GRUB
> 1.92on a GPT partitioned
> 2.18TB system.
Cool! Nice to hear! :-)
> GRUB v1.92 source code is downloaded and compile with yacc links to bison
> (otherwise the compilation will fail).
This is fixed in CVS.
> It turns out that in regular PC partition table (parted msdos label) (hd0,0)
> becomes (hd0,1) if you have GPT table partition.
Ehm, what do you mean? I don't understand.
> Thanks to all the GRUB developers for this great software!!! Finally we
> have a boot loader that supports GPT!!!!
:-)
Why did you need GPT? I implemented it mainly because it will be
required when people switch to GPT and because someone required it.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <ef39265d0601241456s78717c2xc858f5434eafba6f@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-24 23:00 ` Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system Poe Chen
2006-01-24 23:52 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2006-01-25 4:03 ` Poe Chen
2006-01-25 9:41 ` Marco Gerards
2006-01-25 20:21 ` Poe Chen
2006-01-25 20:40 ` Marco Gerards
2006-01-25 0:16 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
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