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 10:41:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0bsprup.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef39265d0601242003u22cf67cfub4e09abfd97d757e@mail.gmail.com> (Poe Chen's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:03:47 -0500")
Poe Chen <poe.poechen@gmail.com> writes:
> The system needs to use GPT because any system that has more than 2TB will
> need GPT. Regular PC (msdos label in parted) partition table won't be able
> to handle that. And it looks like that Mac needs GPT too....
Right. have you tested how well GRUB can handle big filesystems, or
don't you have any?
> 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.
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-25 9:45 UTC|newest]
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[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
2006-01-25 4:03 ` Poe Chen
2006-01-25 9:41 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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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