Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:01:20 +0100 (CET)
From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Neil Conway <nconway_kernel@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Neil Conway wrote:

> Since writing the above, I've been searching for more info.  I
> downloaded four different versions of grub (GNU Grub Legacy, GNU Grub2,
> gentoo and Fedora Core 3).  NONE of these showed any evidence of GPT
> support (I was in a hurry, so I searched for strings EFI, GUID, GPT,
> TB).

I'd use lilo in that case. AFAI understood it can start from any device
provided the BIOS can access the boot files. (May require a 5MB /boot 
partition if the disk is larger than the BIOS can access)

HTH

> I fail to see how grub can work on a GPT boot device if it can't parse
> the partition table.  I conclude that I'm still missing something. 
> Perhaps a layer before grub is supposed to parse the GPT instead?  If
> so, isn't that getting us straight back to a GPT-aware BIOS?

If grub parses the partition table, it will do that without any BIOS
support (except maybe for reading the raw data). So even a GPT-aware BIOS
should not change a thing.

-- 
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