From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1F1hDU-0001nJ-Hi for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:45:29 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1hDO-0001aK-Rq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:45:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F1hDK-0001So-Vl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:45:20 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F1hCE-0008BQ-4x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:44:10 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.32] (helo=smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F1h9a-0005uN-MC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:41:27 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by smtp-vbr12.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0P9fI7W016251 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:41:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <873bjd5gkt.fsf@xs4all.nl> From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:41:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Poe Chen's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:03:47 -0500") Message-ID: <87u0bsprup.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 09:45:24 -0000 Poe Chen 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