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

[Poe Chen]

Hi, Marco,

The system needs to use GPT because any system that has more than 2TB will need GPT.  Regular PC (msdos label in parted) partition table won't be able to handle that.  And it looks like that Mac needs GPT too....

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.

Anyway, thanks a lot for the hard work!!!  =)


Poe

On 1/24/06, Marco Gerards <address@hidden > wrote:

Poe Chen <address@hidden > writes:

> Just want to report that I've successfully boot from floppy with GRUB
> 1.92on a GPT partitioned
> 2.18TB system.

Cool!  Nice to hear! :-)

> GRUB v1.92 source code is downloaded and compile with yacc links to bison
> (otherwise the compilation will fail).

This is fixed in CVS.

> It turns out that in regular PC partition table (parted msdos label) (hd0,0)
> becomes (hd0,1) if you have GPT table partition.

Ehm, what do you mean?  I don't understand.

> Thanks to all the GRUB developers for this great software!!!  Finally we
> have a boot loader that supports GPT!!!!

:-)

Why did you need GPT?  I implemented it mainly because it will be
required when people switch to GPT and because someone required it.

--
Marco



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