From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:37:21 -0700
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To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> So where does grub store the core.img in this setup?
> 
> While the kernel might be noisy about large partitions, it should
> just be noise - everything should still work  - right?
> 

For large disks, don't use MS-DOS partition tables; use GPT or another
clean scheme.

(For what it's worth, the MS-DOS partition table will work just fine for
the purpose of carving out a small /boot at the beginning, too.)

	-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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