Bootloader supporting > 2TB partitions

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GRUB is limited to 2TB partitions; it'd be nice to have access to larger.

Started 2011-09-01T14:06:52+00:00 by

smoseman@prospr...

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Bryan Smith

The >2TiB (>2.2TB) boot limitation is actually a limitation of the 16-bit PC BIOS and MBR Partition Table (legacy BIOS/DOS Disk Label).

There is support for >2TiB (>2.2TB) slices/file systems on GUID Partition Table (GPT) in EL6 with uEFI firmware.

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