3TB and Linux? -- yes, it works

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:10:19PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> Thanks.  After reading a bit, this is what I did:
> 	- download 'gdisk'.  Slackware doesn't have it yet.
> 	- make a single partition (/dev/sdg1), accepting all the defaults
> 	  from 'gdisk'.  It starts from 2048 sector to the end.
> 	- install LILO to "MBR" of /dev/sdg as usual.
> 	- boot
> 
> I was able to boot on my AM2 motherboard with old BIOS.  This was
> surprise, because I thought I had to use UEFI BIOS which can only be
> found in new LGA1155 (Sandy Bridge) motherboards.

No, 64bit windows requires EFI to boot from GPT disks.  32bit windows
can't at all.  Linux has no such problem (both lilo (because it block
maps, although unless lilo is 64bit block capable rather than 32, some day
lilo will unexpectedly not work for you) and grub2 (because it supports
large disks and GPT natively) work fine.

As long as your kernel and boot loader files are early enough on the disk,
or your BIOS and bootloader has no issue with LBA numbers that are more
than 32bits, you should not have issues.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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