[parted-devel] 3TB drives available at retail; anyone tried parted with 'em?

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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