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> It was not uncommon to have a small boot partition at the beginning of the disk for that purpose. still had to that a few weeks ago because on a dell r720 gr
by nisa 8y ago
> It was not uncommon to have a small boot partition at the beginning of the disk for that purpose.
still had to that a few weeks ago because on a dell r720 grub did not want to boot my zfsonlinux rootfs on a 6tb pool - it's either the dell hba controller, grub oder some other limitation but once you go beyond 2tb or 4tb disk I always run into strange behavoir.
Maybe UEFI solves that, I don't know.
- jchw 8y agoEFI doesn't solve it directly, but GPT does. Regular MBR can't handle more than 2tb disks. Of course when running EFI you always want to use GPT. Linux might be able to handle >2tb MBR somehow, but in doing so it might be confusing your BIOS perhaps.