Bug#597799: installation-report: GPT related issues

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> The disk is a new one, though I didn't check if there was a
> pre-existing partitioning (but I really doubt it). OTOH, the disk is
> 2000GB, which is not quite over 2TB, but close enough that it may have
> mattered.

Certainly MBR partitions do not work when you pass 2TB (2^32 512byte
sectors).  After all if it had a partition table already, it would have
just used it.

Now so far I have been running a few machines with GPT partitions on a
2.5TB raid for a few years and with grub2 it works just fine, even with
a machine that just uses a plain old BIOS.

-- 
Len Sorensen