Installing 10.04 to 2TB disk, does not boot

Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed May 19 14:27:48 UTC 2010


James Bensley wrote:
> This is thread is way to long for me to read it all so I'm just going
> to throw it out there;
> 
> Have you checked you can actually boot form a GTP partitioned device
> form your presumably non-EFI BIOS? I would of thought that was your
> problem, you just needed an MS-DOS partition table for GRUB to read
> from?
> 

MSDOS partitions do not support anything over 2TB. Hence the reason for 
GPT partitions.




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