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

[Marco Gerards]

Poe Chen <address@hidden> 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. :-)

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Marco