Re: [arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

On 03/21/2016 10:10 AM, L. Rose wrote: > Unless you want to boot from the new disks, you should be able to use GPT on > them. Are you sure you're using GRUB legacy? Yes, Everything worked out fine. I left 3M at the beginning just in the off chance I would want to place grub2 boot code on the ar

Re: [arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

Unless you want to boot from the new disks, you should be able to use GPT on them. Are you sure you're using GRUB legacy? On 21.03.2016 03:33, David C. Rankin wrote: All, I'm confused by the partitioning wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning). It says: If using GRUB legac

Re: [arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

On 03/20/2016 09:59 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > since you're not booting of the new disks, it doesn't matter. > > and that "Grub Legacy" is grub 0.9x not grub2. grub2 can boot of GPT > easily (it just needs a 2mb legacy boot partition). Thanks Damjan, That is what I suspected, but I couldn

Re: [arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

> I'm confused by the partitioning wiki > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning). It says: > > If using GRUB legacy as the bootloader, one must use MBR > > What about adding disks to this system? Must they be partitioned MBR or can > I > use GPT on the additional disks. (I haven't

[arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?

All, I'm confused by the partitioning wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning). It says: If using GRUB legacy as the bootloader, one must use MBR What about adding disks to this system? Must they be partitioned MBR or can I use GPT on the additional disks. (I haven't used GPT