Re: Migrate to 3TB disk

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:22:51 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:

> 
>> (1d) EFI
> 
> Only applies with a pretty new motherboard that supports it.

I was under the impression that an old BIOS (which is what I probably 
have) doesn't know how to understand how to understand the partition 
table that comes with GPT, which goes with EFI, and that therefore there 
had to be some kind of shim installed to bridge the difference so that it 
can get to grub -- some kind of bootable BIOS replacement, which may take 
a partition of its own, presumably with some kind of kludgy hybrid of GPT 
and the old partition table.

I could be wrong, and my information could be out-of-date.  Most of the 
information about large disk partitioning I find on the web worries about 
the 8.5GB and the 137GB limit.

Thanks.

-- hendrik