Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system

[Marco Gerards]

Poe Chen <address@hidden> 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