[SLL] Booting from GPT partition table?

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:25, Dan Wilder wrote:
> Anybody here have any luck booting from a GPT partition table,
> required AFAICS for drives in excess of some small number of Tb,
> in the vicinity of 2.
>
> Allegedly grub-2 is or will be able to do so, but I sure haven't
> had any luck.  I'm wondering if anybody else has, or whether I
> should abandon the effort for the moment.  Or start working on
> grub-2.

No can do with regular grub, and grub2 has its own host of problems.  The 
solution I've always seen is a small boot drive (could even be flash). /boot 
goes there, maybe even a small /, whatever else would go on the 2+tb drive.

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