Re: how do you boot from a GPT partition?

[Carlos Knowlton]

Andrew Clausen wrote:

> 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
>
>  
Do you know if you can partition a large (ie >2TB) drive without using 
GPT? 

Fdisk seems to choke on drives bigger than 1TB (where "drives" = 
hardware RAID device that looks like a SCSI drive, ie "/dev/sda"), but 
parted with GPT seems to handle them okay, but I can't get it to boot.  
I'd prefer not to resort to lilo, but I may have to if that's my only 
option.


Thanks,
Carlos