Re: how do you boot from a GPT partition?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:20:57PM -0600, Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Having a little trouble booting from a gpt partition that was made using 
> parted.  I have to use gpt, because I don't know of any other way to 
> partition a 3TB disk (ie hardware RAID controller).  I get the following 
> error from grub when i try a "root (hd0,0)" :
> 
> "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0xee"
> 
> I'm using grub version: 0.95
> I'm using parted version: 1.6.15
> 
> Does anyone know how to boot from GPT partitions?

I suspect grub is confused by GPT.  GPT pretends to look like a
Microsoft partition table, but isn't.

You could try using lilo instead: it doesn't look at the partition
table at all.  It precomputes locations when you install it.

Cheers,
Andrew