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SubjectRe: 3TB disk hassles
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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