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From: Neil Conway <nconway_kernel@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:38:11 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041216173811.7697.qmail@web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C1C2AD.90902@dbservice.com>

Hi Tom...

 --- Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote: 
> I had a GUID partition table (GPT) on my system (x86, normal 
> mainboard/BIOS etc) and it worked fine. I didn't need a separate boot
> disk. I used grub as the boot loader. I think if you enable GPT in
> the 
> kernel you should be able to boot stright from the big disk.

Wow, that's unexpected but encouraging news.  What distro?  Did it
allow you to go GPT right from the off, or did you have to migrate from
an MSDOS ptbl to a GPT one after installation?

Thanks for the tip.
Neil



	
	
		
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-16 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-16 14:52 Neil Conway
2004-12-16 15:33 ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 15:37 ` Mark Watts
2004-12-16 15:38   ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2004-12-16 16:44     ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:15       ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 17:38         ` Neil Conway [this message]
2004-12-16 18:05           ` Tomas Carnecky
2005-02-05  1:47             ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 17:40         ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-16 15:52   ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 16:03     ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-16 16:00       ` Alan Cox
2004-12-18  0:12         ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18  3:08           ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-18 12:15             ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-18 23:32               ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-01-03 17:13                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 17:32                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-01-03 18:11                     ` linux-os
2004-12-16 17:10       ` Michelle Konzack
2004-12-16 19:52 ` Adam Heath
2004-12-16 23:28 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2005-02-05  1:51   ` Neil Conway
2004-12-16 22:21 Rico Tudor
     [not found] <fa.fng0mbi.10jm21g@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.ls0rpqi.104a23q@ifi.uio.no>
2005-02-05  2:58   ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-05 11:14     ` Neil Conway
2005-02-06 10:59 Neil Conway
2005-02-06 19:01 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-02-08 23:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found] <linux.kernel.20041216145229.29167.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
2005-02-10  0:06 ` Jan Lindheim

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