On 09/29/2010 03:11 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> you might need a dedicated boot partition below that. Grub2 does not
>> have that limitation, and will boot just fine from a gpt disk.
>
Both Grub2 and Syslinux 4 boots from large disks, but many BIOSes will
(incorrectly) declare them "unbootable" before even giving the boot
loader a chance to try. Very very sad.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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