On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Neil Conway wrote: > Since writing the above, I've been searching for more info. I > downloaded four different versions of grub (GNU Grub Legacy, GNU Grub2, > gentoo and Fedora Core 3). NONE of these showed any evidence of GPT > support (I was in a hurry, so I searched for strings EFI, GUID, GPT, > TB).
I'd use lilo in that case. AFAI understood it can start from any device provided the BIOS can access the boot files. (May require a 5MB /boot partition if the disk is larger than the BIOS can access) HTH > I fail to see how grub can work on a GPT boot device if it can't parse > the partition table. I conclude that I'm still missing something. > Perhaps a layer before grub is supposed to parse the GPT instead? If > so, isn't that getting us straight back to a GPT-aware BIOS? If grub parses the partition table, it will do that without any BIOS support (except maybe for reading the raw data). So even a GPT-aware BIOS should not change a thing. -- Funny quotes: 23. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
