* Aleksandar Lazic al-grml@none.at [20091027 22:25]:

Sometimes we have ~4T storage and I want to boot from this

GPT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

The new grub should be able to handle this but I haven't seen a distribution which use it ;-(

Grub2 is deployed for example with new Ubuntu installations by default and Debian Lenny + Squeeze provide Grub2 as well. The next stable release of Grml (upcoming in those days) provides Grub2 as well.

Maybe there is another bootloader for linux which is able to boot from such a disc?

Grub 1.97 (which counts as Grub2) was released a few days ago and provides improved GPT support:

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/tags/release_1_97/NEWS?revisio...

Also check out http://grub.enbug.org/BIOS_Boot_Partition

HTH && regards, -mika-

Hi,

Aleksandar Lazic schrieb am Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:20:18PM +0100:

Sometimes we have ~4T storage and I want to boot from this

GPT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

The new grub should be able to handle this but I haven't seen a distribution which use it ;-(

Ubuntu 9.10 as well as Debian Unstable (Sid) use it by default. It's in Debian Stable (Lenny) also optionally available. There are even backports of grub2 from backports.org available for Debian Oldstable (Etch).

Never had problems with them on i386 or amd64. I once already installed grub2 from backports.org on an Etch box with 3 TB RAID while to Debian installer was still running. :-)

I though have severe problems with grub2 onn Sparc. Currently sitting in front of my UltraSparc, testing the newest version if they fixed them this time. :-)

HTH, Axel