From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1F1Y0r-0002YT-Br for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:55:49 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1Y0p-0002Wz-2U for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:55:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1Y0l-0002Uh-UL for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:55:45 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1Y0j-0002U4-VM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:55:43 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.25] (helo=smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F1Xy2-0006bA-34 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:52:54 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0ONqnHW077458 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:52:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:52:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Poe Chen's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:00:26 -0500") Message-ID: <873bjd5gkt.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:55:47 -0000 Poe Chen 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