From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1F1rTl-0006Ei-21 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:42:57 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1rTi-0006AV-ST for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:42:55 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1rTh-00065D-6j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:42:54 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1rTh-000650-2Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:42:53 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.22] (helo=smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F1rR8-0002wg-JN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:40:14 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0PKdxki018809 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:40:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <873bjd5gkt.fsf@xs4all.nl> <87u0bsprup.fsf@xs4all.nl> From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:40:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Poe Chen's message of "Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:50 -0500") Message-ID: <8764o8yrby.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: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:42:55 -0000 Poe Chen writes: >> >> Right. have you tested how well GRUB can handle big filesystems, or >> don't you have any? > > > Like I said, I'm using GRUB2 to floppy boot a 2.1TB machine (the main > barrier with large file system is 2TB) and t looks like it's working fine. > However, I do have problems installing GRUB2 on the RAID system. I'll > describe it in another post. Software RAID is not supported yet, if that is the question. >> About the (hd0,0) to (hd0,1), it means that if you have (hd0,0) in regular >> > PC partition table, it becomes (hd0,1) in GPT format. Not sure why, but >> > that's how I boot it since I can't find anything under (hd0,0) once I >> switch >> > to GPT. >> >> Oh, I see. That's something that should be fixed I think. I will >> have a look at it, but it won't happen this month. > > That's a bug? I thought that's how GPT partition works.... =) Well, I am not sure. :-) -- Marco