Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system

2006-01-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Poe Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The system needs to use GPT because any system that has more than 2TB will need GPT. Regular PC (msdos label in parted) partition table won't be able to handle that. And it looks like that Mac needs GPT too Right. have you tested how well GRUB can

Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system

2006-01-25 Thread Marco Gerards
Poe Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right. have you tested how well GRUB can handle big filesystems, or don't you have any? Like I said, I'm using GRUB2 to floppy boot a 2.1TB machine (the main barrier with large file system is 2TB) and t looks like it's working fine. However, I do have

Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system

2006-01-24 Thread Marco Gerards
Poe Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just want to report that I've successfully boot from floppy with GRUB 1.92on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system. Cool! Nice to hear! :-) GRUB v1.92 source code is downloaded and compile with yacc links to bison (otherwise the compilation will fail). This

Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system

2006-01-24 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 00:00, Poe Chen wrote: Just want to report that I've successfully boot from floppy with GRUB 1.92on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system. That's great. Kudos to Marco. grub-install script seems to have an typo. It looks like in line 213 of

Re: Successfully boot from a floppy on a GPT partitioned 2.18TB system

2006-01-24 Thread Poe Chen
Hi, Marco,The system needs to use GPT because any system that has more than 2TB will need GPT. Regular PC (msdos label in parted) partition table won't be able to handle that. And it looks like that Mac needs GPT too About the (hd0,0) to (hd0,1), it means that if you have (hd0,0) in regular PC