Bug#597799: installation-report: GPT related issues
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:28:45PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
Well, 2000GB should still work with MBR partitions.
> 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.
The point is, grub just works, if I don't forget to create a small boot
partition, which I didn't know I had to create until grub-setup failed
because of the lack of it.
Mike
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