[SLL] Booting from GPT partition table?

[Dan Wilder]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:44:26PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

That's what I'm doing now.  I didn't have much luck a year ago
pursuading grub-2 to do anything for me.  I'd hoped somebody had
more recent information, better luck, or more knowledge than me.

I'm rebuilding a server with big hardware RAID and a small boot drive
in the next few days.  Guess I'll rebuild it with what I'd been
thinking of: /boot on the little drive, / in a partition of its
own on the RAID, other arrangements for the rest of the RAID.

-- 
Dan Wilder <dhwilder at gmail.com>