>>>>> "T" == Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:41 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > One option is to stick another drive in the machine and boot from > that. T> I would have thought that to be quite a practical approach. It's not always that simple. It's now possible to get >2TB in a 1U case with no room for anything other than a single additional laptop drive. What now? Stick your OS on a non-redundant drive? Try to hot-glue another drive somewhere? Not really smart. One hack I've thought about is to stick a GPT-capable GRUB on a floppy or a USB dongle that's left permanently plugged in. (It's even possible to jury-rig an internal USB flash drive for this.) The 2TB limit is going to start interfering much more often in the near future, especially with 1TB drives due out in a few months. I hope that server-class boards start switching over to EFI before that happens. - J<
