From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261946AbULPRi1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:38:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261744AbULPRi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:38:26 -0500 Received: from web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.146.176.42]:54207 "HELO web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261436AbULPRiM (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:38:12 -0500 Message-ID: <20041216173811.7697.qmail@web26505.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:38:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Neil Conway Subject: Re: 3TB disk hassles To: Tomas Carnecky Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <41C1C2AD.90902@dbservice.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Tom... --- Tomas Carnecky 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 ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com