On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 17:54:25 +0200, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: > Hi Pascal, thanks a lot for your answer. > > > Is the firmware able to address 8 TB capacity ? > > I am not quite sure how to find out. >
It was on a much older generation of equipment, where we were discovering that the BIOS couldn't access the full 32G Compact-Flash card we were trying to use, but on this particular box I was able to use "ls (hd0)" at the grub prompt to see grub's idea of the size of the device (which presumably was based on the BIOS's access limits): ==== grub> ls (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (md0,msdos1) grub> ls (hd0) Device hd0: No known filesystem detected - Sector size 512 - Total size 8257032KiB ==== Since 8257032KiB is nowhere near 32G, we figured the BIOS couldn't access the full disk (and so we used a small /boot partition to do the install). (In the context of your discussion, I guess you would need to do this test from a grub that is *not* using the native grub device drivers.) Nathan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239