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Re: how do you boot from a GPT partition?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: how do you boot from a GPT partition? |
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Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:09:41 +1100 |
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:37:18AM -0600, Carlos Knowlton wrote:
> Do you know if you can partition a large (ie >2TB) drive without using
> GPT?
>
> Fdisk seems to choke on drives bigger than 1TB (where "drives" =
> hardware RAID device that looks like a SCSI drive, ie "/dev/sda"), but
> parted with GPT seems to handle them okay, but I can't get it to boot.
> I'd prefer not to resort to lilo, but I may have to if that's my only
> option.
You could use a small hard disk as your boot device, and the large
"disk" for your data.
Obviously, the best long-term solution would be to add GPT support to grub.
Cheers,
Andrew