On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:28:45PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > The disk is a new one, though I didn't check if there was a > > pre-existing partitioning (but I really doubt it). OTOH, the disk is > > 2000GB, which is not quite over 2TB, but close enough that it may have > > mattered. > > Certainly MBR partitions do not work when you pass 2TB (2^32 512byte > sectors). After all if it had a partition table already, it would have > just used it.
Well, 2000GB should still work with MBR partitions. > Now so far I have been running a few machines with GPT partitions on a > 2.5TB raid for a few years and with grub2 it works just fine, even with > a machine that just uses a plain old BIOS. The point is, grub just works, if I don't forget to create a small boot partition, which I didn't know I had to create until grub-setup failed because of the lack of it. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
